Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and DeterminationApgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
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Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and Determination
Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
Trees -- North America
=D.= Margin entire, or so nearly so as to appear entire,
sometimes slightly angulated but not lobed. (=V.=)
=D.= Once or twice serrate or crenate or wavy-edged, but not
lobed. (=E.=)
=D.= Distinctly lobed. (=S.=)
(If the notches are over 10 on a side, look under =E.=)
=E.= Straight-veined. (=M.=)
=E.= Not distinctly and evenly straight-veined. (=F.=)
=F.= Leaves evergreen with either revolute or spiny-tipped
margins 18. _Ilex._
=F.= Leaves evergreen, lanceolate-oblong, minutely serrate;
flowers white, 4 in. in diameter 8. _Gordonia._
=F.= Leaves deciduous. (=G.=)
=G.= Fruit with fleshy and often edible pulp. (=K.=)
=G.= Fruit a dry and more or less rounded pod. (=H.=)
=G.= Fruit and flowers in dry catkins; leaves, in most
species, 3 or more times as long as wide, finely
serrate to entire, with free stipules, in many
species remaining on the young twigs, in others shown
by a rounded scar on the sides of the stem; wood
soft; the Willows 91. _Salix._
=G.= Fruit dry akenes with silky pappus, in small heads;
whole plant whitened with scurf; leaves broadened and
coarsely notched near tip; a broad spreading bush
49. _Baccharis._
=H.= Flowers conspicuous, 1 in. or more in size, white.
(=J.=)
=H.= Flowers quite small. (=I.=)
=I.= Flowers and fruit in large panicles; leaves
elongated, peach-like in shape, sour 50. _Oxydendrum._
=I.= Flowers in terminal, erect racemes; fruit small,
three-celled pods; leaves oval, 3-7 in. long,
pointed, thin, finely serrate; plant hardly a tree
53. _Clethra._
=I.= Fruit rounded, small, with calyx adhering to the
lower part, one-seeded, in clusters of 3-many; leaves
1-3 in. long. 56. _Styrax._
=I.= Fruit hairy, in long, hanging panicles, tipped with
long, persistent style, one-seeded 57. _Pterostyrax._
=J.= Flowers bell-shaped, 1 in. long; leaves widest below
the middle; fruit winged pods 58. _Halesia._
=J.= Flowers spreading, 2 in. broad; leaves about twice as
long as wide, widest near the center 7. _Stuartia._
=J.= Flowers spreading, 3 in. broad; leaves about 3 times as
long as wide, widest near tip 8. _Gordonia._
=K.= Fruit a plum-like drupe with a single bony stone;
plant sometimes thorny 36. _Prunus._
=K.= Fruit berry-like, ending in a conspicuous spreading
calyx; plant generally quite thorny 38. _Cratægus._
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