CHAPTER XVIII. 



III. Compound Alternate Leaves. 



2. With teeth. Leaflets bordering main leaf stem. 



THE SUMACH, WALNUTS, HICKORIES, ETC. 



Stag-horn Sumach. The stag-horn sumach is a rugged- 

 Ehus typhina. looking shrub or tree from 10 to 30 

 and occasionally 40 feet high, with milky juice and 

 remarkably ruddy, velvety twigs and branches, by 

 means of which it may readily be identified. Notice 

 how the beautiful compound leaves (composed of 

 from eleven to thirty-one leaflets, very pale beneath) 

 are gracefully set around the smaller branches so that 

 each is out of its neighbor's way and does not ob- 

 struct sunlight ; they change from a lively light green 

 in August to a most beautiful scarlet red in Septem- 

 ber. The pyramidal fruit cluster reveals a curious, 

 red-haired character under the magnifying glass, and 

 its effective red -maroon patch of color gives the tree 

 a most picturesque appearance in later summer. The 



graceful, drooping effect of the leaflets, and the bold, 



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