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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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ssured barkand smooth twigs. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, entiremargins, pointed at base and apex, smooth and dark greenabove, paler and hairy beneath. Flowers in clusters in theaxils of the leaves. Fruit globular, blue or black, lustrous. Li moist soils Virginia to Florida, west to Texas and Arkan-sas. The wood is bright red and is used in the manufacture ofsmall trays, mirror frames, canes, and cupboard shelves. SASSAFRAS Nees and Ebermeir. Sassafras sassafras (L.) Karsten. Sassafras. A mediumsized tree with thick, rough, prominently ridged, brown bark,greenish brittle twigs and mucilaginous sap. Leaves entire or2-3 lobed, smooth, becoming red or yellow in autumn. Flow-ers yellow, imperfect, mostly dioecious. Fruit an oblong-globose drupe. The bark of the root yields an aromatic stim-ulant used in medicine. In dry soil, Maine to Ontario, loAva, Nebraska, Florida andTexas. The wood is deep brown, somewhat resembling ash in itsgeneral characteristics. The Trees of Texas 143 t^-
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Iig. 46. Sassafras sassafras. NYSSACEAE Diimort. Dogwood Family. Trees or shrubs with opposite or alternate entire, firm,leathery leaves; flowers in clusters, with or without involuere;fruit a drupe rarely two seeded. Leaves alternate 1. Nyssa. Leaves opposite. Flowers in heads, subtended by an involuere of white bracts 2. Cynoxylon. Flowers not subtended by an involuere 3. Svida. 144 Bidletin of the Umversity of TexasNYSSA (Granoviiis) L. Trees with alternate, mostly entire leaves which ar 3 con-spicuous for their bright red autumnal coloration. Flowerssmall greenish. Fruit a black drupe. Pistillate flowers and drupes in clusters. .Pistillate flowers and drupes borne singly 1. N. sylvatica. 2. N. aquatica. 1. Nyssa Slyvatica )\Iarshal. Sour Gum. A large foresttree 80°-100° high with spreading slender branches, greenish

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