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Oak (Cuptdiferce) 



Leaves, one half to one and one third inches long, rounded 

 or wedge-shape, or sometimes egg-shape. Bark, 

 brownish. 



Fruit, with its wing mostly narrower than the rest of the 

 nutlet. 



Found, in wet ground in Connecticut and New Jersey, 

 and westward, and in the mountains of New England 

 and northward. 



A shrub two to eight feet high. 



Dwarf Birch. B. glandulbsa, Michx. 

 Flower- clusters and fruit, much as in the last. 



Leaves, reverse egg-shape to rounded, one half to three 

 quarters of an inch long. 



Branches, marked with resinous, wart-like dots. 



Found, from the mountains of New England far north- 

 ward. 



A shrub one to four feet high. 



B. papyrifera, var. minor, Tuck., is a low form of the 

 " Paper Birch," six to nine feet high, found in the higher 

 parts of the White Mountains. 



