. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. gularopen head and short trunk sometimes 10-12 diameter. Its wood is hard, but rather ligit and easilyworked, very close-grained, durable and of alight brown color with lighter sap-wood. InEurope it is sometimes used for fuel and inIndia burned as incense. In Europe its sweet-ish fruit is used as an ingredient of gin. Leaves in whorls of 3. spreading, V^-Vi , often curved, rigid with sliarp tips, articulateat base, lustrous darlv green or bronze-green below,snowy wliite witli
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. gularopen head and short trunk sometimes 10-12 diameter. Its wood is hard, but rather ligit and easilyworked, very close-grained, durable and of alight brown color with lighter sap-wood. InEurope it is sometimes used for fuel and inIndia burned as incense. In Europe its sweet-ish fruit is used as an ingredient of gin. Leaves in whorls of 3. spreading, V^-Vi , often curved, rigid with sliarp tips, articulateat base, lustrous darlv green or bronze-green below,snowy wliite witli bands of stomata above ; budsscaly. Flowers in late spring, axillary; stami-nate composed of 5 or 6 whorls each of 3 stamensbearing broad connectives and 3 or 4 anther-cells ;pistillate consisting of 3 ovules open at apex,alternate, with 3 minute fleshy scales and sur-rounded with a or 6 whorls of ternate matures the third season, subglobose, about1/4 in. in diameter, dark blue with bloom, sweetflesh and 1-3 bony seeds which are about Vs , angled, and penetrated with rosin <^\S^
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