. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of of the Noetheen States and Canada. .'JIS The Cassena is a beautiful small tree of the coast regions of the southern Atlantic and Gulf States, occasionally attaining the height of 20 or 30 ft. with broail rounded top and trunk sometimes 12 or 18 in. in diameter, or is often no more than a large shrub. It grows mainlj' in the hvunid soil of swamps and about the borders of pine barren ponds in company with the Cypress. Ogechee Lime, Gums, Sweet Bay, Water and Laurel
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of of the Noetheen States and Canada. .'JIS The Cassena is a beautiful small tree of the coast regions of the southern Atlantic and Gulf States, occasionally attaining the height of 20 or 30 ft. with broail rounded top and trunk sometimes 12 or 18 in. in diameter, or is often no more than a large shrub. It grows mainlj' in the hvunid soil of swamps and about the borders of pine barren ponds in company with the Cypress. Ogechee Lime, Gums, Sweet Bay, Water and Laurel Oaks, Water Hickorj', Planer-tree, etc. Rare in tlic northern part of its range it becomes common soutbward, reach ing its largest size and abundance in southern Alabama, Georgia and Florida. In these re- gions it is often known as Henderson-wood. Its wood is light, a cu. ft. when absolutely dry weighing 29.!).') tough, close-grained, easily worked and of a clear creamy v.'hite hrarfs pci'sistcnt. (il)laac('olato or o',iOvai('. l'i;-n in. lon^^ cunoato at base, obtuse or acute or cmar^inato (Hi>motimcs rouuded or retuso) at apoy witli rcvolute and entire margins or very re- motely and sharply appressed serrate near apc-^. thick, sliining dark green above, paler and pubes- cent on midribs beneath; petioles short, stout and usually pubescent. Floiccr-s white, scarcely 14 i"- broad, in hairy pedunculate clusters from the axils mainly of the leaves of the year, the staminato o-9-flt)wered and the pistillate usually M-flowered, common peduncles nearly 1 in. long; caly-Y lobes acute, ciliate. Fntit red drupes ripening in au- tumn and persisting luitil sjiring. sub.'iiobose, 14 in. in diameter ; nutlets prominently ribbed. 1. Syn. Ilex Dahoon Walt. 2. A. W., XII, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly res
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