244 BIRCH FAMILY 



Carpinus caroliniana Walter 1788 American Hornbeam Blue 



Beech 



A small tree, 6-10 m. (18-30 ft.) high, stem ridged, with gray bark, 

 sometimes with lighter blotches; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rounded 

 at the base, acuminate at the apex, sharply and doubly serrate, veins 



Carpinus caroliniana Ostrya virginiana 



nearly straight and parallel, glabrous above, pubescent in the axils of the 

 veins beneath, 4-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, petioles slender about 1 cm. 

 long; staminate catkins 3-5 cm. long, scales brown, triangular, veiny and 



