48 Trees with Simple Leaves. [An 



Bark, darker and much more broken. 



Branches, compact and more or less horizontal and straight 



to their ends, instead of arching and drooping. 

 Seeds, resembling in shape those of the slippery elm. 



The tree is sometimes seen sixty to seventy feet high, 

 but usually is much smaller. Like all the elms it is of 

 rapid growth. 



Genus CELTIS, L. (Hackberry.) 



An ancient name for the Lotus. 



Fig. 24. — Hackberry, Sugar Berry. C. occidentalis, L. 



Leaves, simple ; alternate ; edge sharp-toothed, but 



entire at the base. 

 Outline, obliquely egg-shaped, very one-sided. Apex, 



taper-pointed. Base, usually somewhat heart-shaped, 



or slightly pointed or rounded. 

 Leaf, two to three inches long, one to two inches wide ; 



rough. 

 Bark of the trunk, rough ; sometimes much crumpled. 

 Fruit, about the size of a pea ; solitary ; drooping from 



the bases of the leaf-stems, on stems once or twice as 



long as the leaf-stems ; rounded ; pulp thin, sweet, 



and edible ; purplish red ; ripe in September. 

 Found, from the valley of the St. Lawrence westward and 



southward. 

 A tree fifteen to thirty feet high (but much larger at 

 the South), most common, and reaching its finest growth 

 in the basin of the Mississippi. It is very variable in size 

 and in the shape and texture of its leaves. 



Variety crassifblia is sometimes found, in which the 

 leaves are thicker and usually toothed all around. 



