Trees, Shrubs and Vines 



mostly inconspicuous, which results in part from its 

 minuteness and partly from its dull coloring. 



INCONSPICUOUS-FLOWERING, NON-AMENTACEOUS 

 TREES 



Sour Gum Staghorn Sumach 



Persimmon Hop-tree 



Sassafras Angelica-tree 



Alligator Pear White Ash 



Large Tupelo Red Ash 



Basswood Black Ash 



Downy-leaved Basswood Green Ash 



White Basswood Blue Ash 



American Elm Carolina Water Ash 



Slippery Elm Silver-leaf Maple 



Corky White Elm Ash-leaved Maple 



Winged Elm Sugar Maple 



Nettle tree Striped Maple 



Alder Buckthorn Mountain Maple 



Planer-tree Cut-leaved Maple 



Sweet Gum Honey-locust 



Buttonwood Water-locust 



Devilwood Prickly Ash 



Kentucky Coffee-tree Red Mulberry 



Poison Dogwood White Mulberry 

 Ailanthus 



The amentaceous (catkin-bearing) trees exhibit the 

 lower flower-types as explained above, and the flower- 

 clusters as a rule are not in the least degree ornamental ; 

 but the rule has a few notable exceptions, as in the chest- 

 nut and some of the birches, the graceful effect of whose 

 long, pendent tassels, white or golden, is not inferior to 

 that of many of the more pretentious blossoming trees. 

 In the beech the catkin takes the form of a globular mass. 



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