STUDIES OF TREES IN WINTER 



hair over the leaf-scar. Leaf-scars conspicuous, 

 alternate, the bundle-scars horseshoe ( U) shaped. 

 Light brown buds destitute of scales. Termina* 

 bud encloses pistillate flowers, which are fertil- 

 ized by the staminate flowers enclosed in the 

 pineapple- like bud over the leaf- scars. These 

 staminate flowers hang in one long catkin, which 

 drops off after shedding the pollen in spring. 

 The superposed buds (two or three over the leaf- 

 scars) co?ttain the side branches. Pith light 

 brown and chambered, by cutting a twig 

 lengthwise this can be seen, a characteristic 

 of the fuglans family. 



Among all the native trees, the butternut is 

 perhaps the most interesting for winter study. 

 The naked buds, the irregular leaf-scars, with 

 horseshoe bundle-scars, the superposed buds 

 containing the lateral branches and the queerly 

 marked buds of the staminate flowers, the 

 chambered pith, and the little fringes of down 

 on the stems, every structural detail of this tree 

 is interesting and unusual. The butternut is 

 one of the few trees among the fuglandacece 

 which is not tall and beautiful in outline. It 

 is a low tree, with wide-spreading, rather strag- 

 gling branches, frequently ill shapen and un- 

 couth in appearance. It is usually associated 

 in our minds with country lanes, and growing 



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