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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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bark is brown,rather thin, %-^/4, and almost smooth. The young tAvigs areslender, smooth, or Avith fine hairs, reddish, becoming brownAvith age. Leaves linear lanceolate, often falcate, pointed atboth ends, light yellowish green, darker on upper than onloAA^er surfac, remotely notched AA^ith projecting teeth. Petioleof the leaf grooved %-V4 long. The Trees of Texas oJ Along- streams and sand bars from Quebec soutln\ard, Vir-ginia, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Texas. In Texas it is foundwest of the Pecos River. Economic uses similar to Salix amygdaloides. CORYLACEAE Mirbel. Hazel Nut Family. Small trees with close grained, hard wood, and smooth orscaly bark. Leaves simple, alternate, deciduous, straightveined and doubly serrate. Flowers borne in catkins in theearly spring. Bark on main trunk smooth 1. Ostrya. Bark on main trunk ridged 2. Carpinus. 1. OSTRYA Scap. Hop Hornbeam. 1. Ostrya Virginiana (Mill) AYilld. Ironwood. AmericanHop Hornbeam. A small tree usually 20°-30° high with trunk
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Fig? Ostrya Virginiana. diameter of 18-20. The branches are long, slender, and droop-ing, forming a rounded open crown. Bark brown, thin and 60 Bulletin of the University of Texas shreddy on trunk and older branches, green and hairy onyoung twigs. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, acute at the apex,rounded, wedge-shaped, or heart-shaped at base, sharply,doubly serrate, 21^-4 long, thin and tough. Flowers bornein catkins in early spring. Fruit hop-like, 2 to 3 times aslong as wide, consisting of bladder-like bracts which enclosethe nuts. Valley of the St. Lawrence, south to Florida and west toTexas, Ontario, Minnesota, South Dakota and Kansas. It isfound principally in dry soil in thick woods. The wood is very hard, tough, close grained. It is used forfuel, fence posts, tool handles, and mallets. The small sizeof the tree makes it of little economic importance. It is some-times planted for ornament. 2. CARPINUS L. 1. Carpinus Caroliniana Walt. American Hornbeam. Wa-ter Beech. Blue Beech. Sma

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