KEY, BY MEANS OF THE LEAVES, TO THE TREES AND 

 ARBORESCENT AND CLIMBING SHRUBS, 



OF. NOT LESS THAN NINE FEET HIGH, COMMONLY SEEN GROWING, EITHER 

 WILD OR CULTIVATED, IN THE OPEN AIR, NEAR MANCHESTER. 



(Woody plants of less than nine feet high cannot be classified by their leaves 

 alone. Many are well-marked, and easily described, but there are numbers so 

 closely alike that the foliage is not enough for their discrimination.) 



A. 



Leaves exceedingly minute, and pressed close to the 



surface of the branches and twigs Cypress & Arbor Vitce, 464 



B. 



Leaves needle-shaped, or not more than a sixteenth of » 



an inch in width. 



Growing singly, or three or five together Fir-tree family, 460 



Growing in tufts. 



Perennial, dark-green, and four-cornered Cedar, 4G1 



Annual, light-green, and flat Larch, 461 



G. 

 Leaves parallel-veined, narrow, and very numerous. 



Branches of the tree whorled Chili Pine, 464 



Branches spreading irregularly Yeic-tree, 465 



D. 

 Leaves never less than half to three-quarters of an 

 inch in width at the broadest part, often several 

 inches in width, net-veined or feather- veined, 

 flat and spreading. 



1. Quinate, septate, or digitate. 



Tall upright trees Horse-chesnuts, 157 



Slender climber against walls Virginian Creeper, 152 



2. Trifoliolate Laburnum, 184 



