224 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



of the fact that the latter tree is a family rela- 

 tion. 



This slender and graceful tree, which grows from 

 15 to 30 feet high, is common, in swamps and cold 

 mountain woods throughout the Northern States from 

 Maine to Minnesota ; southward it follows the Alle- 

 ghany Mountains to North Carolina. It is very 

 frequently seen in the vicinity of Lake George, and 

 on the higher peaks of the White Mountains, and 

 I found it at every step beside the steep path 

 which ascends Mount Cannon, in the Franconia 

 Notch. In the struggle for existence at an alti- 

 tude of three thousand five hundred feet it did 

 not attain a height of over 4 feet. The elder- 

 leaved mountain ash (Pyrus sambucifolia), found 

 also in the higher mountains of the northern part 

 of New England and westward to Lake Superior, 

 has more obtuse and abruptly sharp-pointed leaves, 

 usually double-toothed. The berries are larger but the 

 clusters are smaller than those of the other variety. 

 Butternut. The butternut, sometimes called oil 

 Jugians tinerea. nut, is very common in New Eng- 

 land and the extreme Northern States ; it extends 

 westward to the eastern Dakotas, eastern Nebraska, and 

 northeastern Arkansas, and southward to Delaware 

 and through the Alleghany Mountains to Georgia. 

 I can hardly call it a beautiful tree, as its foliage is 



