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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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Fig. 43. Acer saccharinum. gronnd, New Brunswick, Ontario, South Dakota, Florida,Oklahoma and Texas. Many cultivated varieties with finelycut leaves are planted for ornament. A very quick growingtree extensively cultivated. 5. Acer rubrum L. Red Maple. A large forest tree withupright branches. Bark on young stems gray, smooth, be-coming brown and shaggy on older stems. Twigs reddishbrown. Leaves 3-5 lobed, the middle lobe longer than the othersand tapering toward the broad base, serrate margined,notches wide obtuse angled, medium green and smooth above,paler and somewhat hairy beneath. Flowers scarlet or yel-lowish, in clusters in tlie axils of leaves of the preceding year. The Trees of Texas 137 Staminate and pistillate in separate clusters. Fruit on longdrooping pedicels, ripening in the spring. AVings divergentat maturity. Most abundant on low wet ground, but sometimes found
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Acer rubrum. growing on hillsides. Quebec, Ontaria. Florida and wrst toIowa and Texas. The wood is used for furniture, flooring and finishing. 6. Acer Drummondi Hooker and Arnot. DrummondsMaple. A medium sized tree with whitish scaly bark. Leaveslong ??talked, deep green above, whitish and wooly below,3-lobed, the lobes sharp pointed, and coarsely toothed. Flow-ers red, in clusters, staminate and pistillate on different trees.Fruit a two-winged samara with slender pedicel and largeconvergent wings. In river swamps, Georgia. Florida and Texas. RULAC Adams. Box Elders. Twigs and petioles smooth R. Xegimdo. Twigs and petioles hairy R. Texana. 1. Rulac Negundo (L.) A. S. Hitchcock. Box Elder. Amedium sized tree with short trunk, widespreading branches, 138 Bulletin of the University of Texas flaky bark and smooth green twigs. Leaves pinnate, leaflets3-5 rarely 7, coarsely and sparingly toothed, thin, light green,and smooth above, somewhat hairy along the veins below.Flowers yelloAvish gre

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