. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. American Beech 269 I. AMERICAN BEECH GENUS FAGUS [TOURNEFORT] LINN^US Species Fagus grandifolia Ehrhart Fagus jerruginea Aiton. Fagus americana Sweet MAGNIFICENT tree, inhabiting rich soils, frequently forming almost pure forests, ranging from Nova Scotia to Ontario, Wisconsin, Florida and Texas; its maximum height is about 40 meters, with a trunk diameter of m. The trunks, when crowded in the forest, are tall and sle
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. American Beech 269 I. AMERICAN BEECH GENUS FAGUS [TOURNEFORT] LINN^US Species Fagus grandifolia Ehrhart Fagus jerruginea Aiton. Fagus americana Sweet MAGNIFICENT tree, inhabiting rich soils, frequently forming almost pure forests, ranging from Nova Scotia to Ontario, Wisconsin, Florida and Texas; its maximum height is about 40 meters, with a trunk diameter of m. The trunks, when crowded in the forest, are tall and slender, but when growing in the open they are short and low-branched, the branches widely spreading, or drooping. The wide-spreading roots grow close to the surface of the ground and produce many young trees, often surrounding the main one with a dense thicket. The bark is about i cm. thick, very close, quite smooth, and light gray. The twigs are slender, sometimes zigzag, green and hairy, soon becoming smooth, dark yel- low, with Kghter yellow lenticels, and pass through various shades of red and brown to gray. The winter buds are often cm. long, taper-pointed, and covered with bright brown scales. The leaves are very silky when unfolding, becoming stiff and leathery, ovate, oval or oblong-ovate, 5 to 14 cm. long, usually short taper-pointed, gradually narrowed and wedge-shaped or rounded, or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, sharply toothed on the margin, light green, becoming dull blue-green above, yellowish green, shining and prominently nerved beneath; leaf-stalk grooved and slender, to 2 cm. long; stipules thin, red- dish, often 2 cm. long, soon falling off. The foliage turns bright yellow before falling in the autumn. The flowers appear when the leaves are partly unfolded, the staminate in globose drooping catkins on hairy stalks 2 to 4 cm. long, with 2 awl-shaped deciduous bracts near the middle; the perianth is somewhat bell- shaped, 4- to 8-lobed, the lobes ova
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