HOARY ALDER; SPECKLED ALDER (Alnus incana, Willd.). 

 Shrub to 20 feet. Shrubby tree forming copses in wet ground. 

 Distinguished by white spots that blotch the bark. Leaves 

 ovate, strongly veined with straight ribs, dark green, lined 

 with hoary bloom. Flowers in catkins, monoecious, clustered 

 near ends of twigs. Fruit oval cones, \ inch long, scales 

 spreading to liberate the winged seeds. Dist.: Woodlands. 

 Eastern States. 



