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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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. Not so well adaptedfor ornamental hedges as many other shrubs. 3. BROUSSONETIA Yentenat. Paper Mulberry. Broussonetia papyrifera Yentenat. A small tree withgreenish gray bark, milky juice and stout hairy twigs. Leavesthin, 3-5 lobed or sometimes with only one lateral lobe, roughabove, hairy below, borne on long stalks. Flowers diecious,the pij>tillate in dense round heads on one tree, the staminatein catkins on another. Fruit a globular aggregate of smallred drupelets %-! in diameter. Native of Asia, introduced and growing spontaneouslj^ inthis country. The fibrous inner bark is used in the manufacture of paper. 4. FICUS (Tournefort) L. The Figs. Trees, shrubs or woodv climbers with milkv sap; thick,leathery mostly alternate lobed leaves; flowers borne in areceptacle, usually dioecious. The Trees of Texas 95 Ficus carica L. Common Fig. A shrub or round topped^small tree with short trunk, close, smooth, reddish or graybark and stout, pithy tAvigs. Leaves large, thick, firm, leath-
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Fig. 28. Broussonetia. ery, suborbicular or oval, deeply 5-7 lobed, rough and hairyabove, pale and hairy beneath. Flowers dioecious, the stam-inate usually absent in the cultivated form. Fruit pear-shaped, with soft, sweet edible flesh. A native of the Mediterranean region, extensively plantedin our area for fruit and ornament. 94 Bulletin of the University of Texas ULMACEAE Mirbel. The Elm Family. Trees with watery juice; leaves alternate, simple, serrate,pinnately veined; flowers small and without the corolla; fruit a samara, drupe or small nut.Leaves with one primary vein at base, lateral veinsparallel.Fruit a samara winged all the way around. ... 1. Ulmus. Fruit a small nut with soft tubercles 2. Planera. Leaves 3-veined at the base, fruit a fleshy, juicy drupe 3. Celtis. 1. ULMUS L. The Elms. Trees with deeply furrowed bark; leaves simple, alternatetwo ranked, doubly serrate, taper pointed, unequal at base,lateral veins prominent and parallel; flowers small clusteredappearing in

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