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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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ped at base. Flowersred or purplish in axillary clusters on branches of precedingyear, appearing before the leaves. Fruit a flattened, leatherypod. Leaves pointed at the apex, pods stalked 1. C. Canadensis. Leaves rounded and blunt at the apex. Pod not stalked 2. C. reniformis. 1. Cercis Canadensis R. Red Bud. Judas Tree. A smalltree with thin fissured bark, smooth branches, and slender,light brown twigs. Leaves ovate-orbicular to reniform, pointedat the apex, rounded at base, bright green and smooth above,paler and hairy along the veins below. Flowers before theleaves in clusters of 4 to 8, purplish, pedicels somewhat elon-gated. Fruit a linear oblong pod which tapers at both ends,persistent until winter. Ontario to Florida, west to Minnesota, Arkansas, and east-ern Texas. Principally along streams and in rich bottom The Trees of Texas 119 Lands. A very desirable ornamental tree or shrub wliiehshould be more extensively cultivated. 2. Cercis reniformis Eng. Red Bud. A tree resembling
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Fig. 3 6. Cercis reinformis. Cercis canadensis, but with blunt pointed leaves and denseflower clusters. Texas and Mexico. PARKINSONIA fPlumies) L. The Horsebeans. 1. Parkinsonia aculeata L. Retama. A small thorny,open topped tree or shrub, with thin, reddish brown, mostlysmooth bark and yellowish green twigs. Leaves in fasicles, 120 Bulletin of the University of Texas bipinnate. rachis winged, leaflets numerous, small, rather farapart. Flowers large and showy, bright yellow, in slenderupright racemes. Fruit a cylindrical few seeded pod, con-tracted between the seeds, pointed at base and apex. In theRio Grande Valley and extending into Mexico. It has beenextensively naturalized throughout the southern part of Texasand is planted for ornament. CERCIDIUM Tulasne. 1. Cercidium floridum Benth. A low wide topped tree15°-20° high with short, crooked trunk, green bark and axil-lary spines. Leaves evenly bipinnate, pinnae 1 pair bearing2-4 pairs of small glandular leaflets. Flowers appearing

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