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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



rection. The Beech (Fagus FerriigineaJ, has a straight 

 trunk, but it is remarkably smooth, of a bluish-grey, with 

 white and dark patches : its branches are longer and 

 straighter, and the twigs come to a finer point, than those 

 of the maple. The Basswood (Tilia Glabra), is much 

 like the maple, but the trunk is usually rounder, and more 

 pillar-like, and though fissured like it, yet the fissures are 

 more regular, and it is free from those knobs which cha- 

 racterize the sugar-maple. The Elm (Ulmus Americana), 

 growing in the open clearing, with a full supply of light 



ELM ( Ulmus Americana) in a clearing. 



