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(2) Leaves large, lobed, the tip of the lobes rounded 



and not pointed or bristle-tipped : white, bur, 

 and post oak (Fig. 94, B). 



(3) Leaves crenate or toothed, resembling those of 



chestnut : chestnut oaks, including the cow oak 

 (Fig. 95, A). 



(4) Leaves small, rounded, leathery, and evergreen: live 



oaks (Fig. 94, Z>). Really belonging to group 3. 

 j. Tulip or Yellow Poplar. A rough-barked tree with a 

 leaf so peculiar in shape (Fig. 95, (7) that it is 

 never mistaken for any other. The flower resembles 

 a tulip, is green and yellow ; the fruit is a cone 

 which persists all through winter. 



k. Sweet or Red Gum, Trees with long-stalked, five- 

 lobed, finely toothed leaves and rough, long-stalked 

 little balls for fruit. The fruit persists a long time 

 after ripening, so that it may be seen all winter 

 (Fig. 95, p). 



I. Sassafras. Trees with large entire edged leaves, most 

 of which have one large lobe, giving them some- 

 what the shape of a mitten, while some leaves 

 have two lobes and some have none. Fruit a blue 

 berry ripening in summer (Fig. 95, B). 



3. The edge of the leaf neither lobed nor toothed. 



m. Magnolias, including the Cucumber Tree. Leaves very 

 large (often more than twelve inches long) ; flowers 

 large and showy; fruit a soft-scaled cone (Fig. 96, A). 



n. Tupelo; Black or Sour Gums. Trees of the swamps, 

 chiefly of the South, with bluish or blackish berries, 

 each containing a stone or pit. In the cotton gum, 

 or large tupelo, some of the leaves have one or a 

 few irregularly disposed notches (Fig. 96, B). 



