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grafting. When the latter practice is adopted, it is found to be more success- 

 ful when the scions are of two years' growth, and when the graft is earthed up 

 in the manner practised with the grafts of American oaks. (See p. 862.) 



2. F. FERRUGI'NEA Ait. The American ferruginous-woo^rf Beech. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 362. ; Michx. N. Amer. ,3. p. 21. 

 Synonymes. F. americfina latifdlia Du Hoi Harbk. 1. p. 269. ; red 



Beech, Amer. 

 Engravings. Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. 106. ; Wang. Amer., t. 29. 



f. 55. ; and OUT Jig. 1698. 



Spec. Char., $c. Ler.ves ovate, acuminate, thickly 

 toothed ; downy beneath ; ciliate on the margin. 

 ( Willd.) A deciduous tree, so much resembling 

 the common European beech, as by some to be 

 considered only a variety of it. North America. 

 Height 40ft. to 60ft. Introduced in 1766, and 

 not unfrequent in collections. 



Varieties. 



t F. f. 2 caroliniana. F. caroliniana Lodd. 

 Cat. ed. 1836. (Our fig. 1697.) Leaves 

 somewhat cordate at the base, ovate, slightly 



acuminate, obsoletely dentate, and somewhat mucronate. The 

 colour is a very dark green, somewhat tinged with purple when fully 

 mature. The veins of the under side of the leaf are somewhat 

 hoary. Not common in collections. 



* F./. 'Slatifo/ia. F. latifolia of Lee's Nursery. (Our Jig. 1699.) 

 Leaves lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate ; tapering at the 

 base, feather-nerved, much 

 longer than those of the 

 preceding variety in pro- 

 portion to their breadth, 

 and of a lighter green. 



1697. F. f. caroliniana. 



1C98. F. ferruginea. 



1699. F. f. lalifoHa. 



The American beech is easily known from the European one by its much 

 shorter obtusely pointed buds, with short, roundish, convex scales, which ter- 

 minate almost abruptly, and are enclosed in numerous, short, loose scales. 

 Its leaves are equally brilliant with those of the white or European beech, a 

 little larger and thicker, and more deeply serrated. Its fruit is of the same 

 form, but only half as large ; while the prickles of its calyx are less nu- 

 merous, but firmer. The wood is somewhat red, or of a rusty hue, when 

 mature; whence the name. Propagated by layers and grafting. 



