Identifier: treestx00lewi (find matches)
Title: Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Lewis, Isaac McKinney, 1878-1943
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Austin, University of Texas
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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lack drupe. RHAMNUS L. Rhamnus caroliniana AValter. Indian Cherry. A shrub orsmall tree 30-35^ high with gray bark, and smooth reddishbrown twigs. Leaves alternate, firm, oblong to elliptic, 2-5long, narrow at base, smooth and shining above, paler andsomewhat hairy beneath. Flowers in small clusters in theaxils of the leaves. Fruit globose, bluish black with three 140 Bulletin of the University of Texas seeds and sweet flesh. Along streams and on hillsides. Vir-ginia to Missouri, Kansas, Florida and Texas. Planted forornament. TILIACEAE Jussien. Linden Family. Tilia L. The Bass Woods. Trees with mucilaginous sap, tough inner bark, alternate,serrate, unequally cordate, or truncate leaves; flowers in ax-illary clusters with penduncles attached to a conspicuousbract; fruit nut-like. Leaves smooth beneath 1. T. Americana. Leaves more or less hairy beneath 2. T. leptophylla. 1. Tilia Americana L. A large straight trunked foresttree, usually 60^-70° high with spreading branches, gray bark,
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Fig-. 45. Tilia Americana. and light gray or brownish twigs. Occasionally larger, 100°-120° high. Leaves orbicular, Arm, heart-shaped or truncateat base, sharply serrate, smooth dark green above, yellow-green and lustrous with hairs in the axils of the veins be- The Trees of Texas 141 neath. Bract rather large, the peduncle clecurrent almost tothe base. Fruit hairy. In woods New Brunswick to ^Manitoba,south to Georgia and west to North Dakota and Texas. The wood is soft, tough, light, and is used in quantities forfurniture and in carpentry. There is no merchantable supplyproduced in Texas. 2. Tilia leptophylla (Vant.) Small. A medium sized for-est tree with smooth bark and slender twigs. Leaves thin,ovate, long pointed, toothed, smooth above, more or less hairybeneath. Bracts sessile or almost so. Fruit globose, hairy. In Louisiana and Texas extending north to Missouri. BUETTNERIACEAE H. B. K. Chocolate Family. Firmiana Marsigli. Japanese Varnish Tree. Firmiana platanifolia (L.) K.

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