Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities

Acorns aments anthers apex autumn they turn axils bark base become beneath Birch Black Black Spruce borne bracts branches Branchlets bright broad caducous calyx carpels catkins cells opening longitudinally close-grained clusters color corolla Cotyledons dark green downy drupe Feather-veined filaments five inches long five-lobed Flowers.-May foliage forest Fruiting Spray full grown gray grow hairy imbricate in bud inches long inner scales involucral leaf leaflets leaves light brown lobes maple midrib monoecious oblong obovate obtuse one-half orange oval Ovary ovate ovules pale green paler panicles pedicels peduncles Petioles Pine Pistillate Pistillate flowers plant Poplar primary veins Quercus racemes reddish brown roots rounded Samaras sapwood scaly scarlet seeds serrate sessile shining short slender slightly smooth soil species Staminate Staminate flowers stem stigma Stipules stout Strobiles Sumach thick tinged with red tomentose tomentum tree trunk two-celled wedge-shaped weight Willow Winter wood yellow green