Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.Sargent, Charles Sprague
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Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) 2nd ed.
Sargent, Charles Sprague
Trees -- North America
Leaves 8′—12′ long, with slender pubescent petioles and rachis, and 9—13
rarely 19 oblong-lanceolate to ovate acuminate often slightly falcate
coarsely serrate leaflets cuneate or rounded at base, coated when they
first appear with scurfy pubescence, soon becoming glabrous, or at
maturity slightly pubescent on the midrib below, 3′—4′, or those of the
lower pairs 1½′—2′ long, and 1′—1½′ wide, thin, yellow-green, with a
thin conspicuous yellow midrib and primary veins. Flowers: staminate in
slender puberulous or pubescent aments 8′—10′ long; calyx nearly
orbicular, long-stalked, pale yellow-green, 5 or 6-lobed, the lobes
ovate, acute, hoary pubescent on the outer surface, their bract acute,
coated with thick pale tomentum; stamens 30—40, with nearly sessile
yellow anthers, and slightly divided connectives; pistillate not seen.
Fruit subglobose to slightly ovoid or oblong, abruptly contracted at
apex into a short point (_J. elæopyren_ Dode), densely tomentose when
half grown, 1′—1½′ in diameter, with a thin husk covered with close
rufous pubescence; nut dark brown or black, slightly compressed, usually
rather broader than high, or ovoid, rounded or bluntly acute at apex,
rounded and sometimes depressed at base, longitudinally grooved with
broad deep grooves, thick shelled; seed small and sweet.
A tree sometimes 50° high, with a straight trunk occasionally 3°—4° in
diameter, or divided at the ground into several large stems, stout
branches forming a narrow head, and slender branchlets thickly coated
when they first appear with rufous pubescence, becoming red-brown,
pubescent or puberulous and marked by many small pale lenticels at the
end of their first season and ashy gray the following year.
Distribution. Banks of streams in the cañons of central and southern New
Mexico and Arizona, and on Oak Creek near Flagstaff, Arizona on the
Colorado plateau (_P. Lowell_).
4. Juglans rupestris Engelm. Walnut.
[Illustration: Fig. 166]
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