TREES AND SHRUBS 



green to bright red, ultimately ashy-grey ; Bark rough, pale grey or nearly white ; 

 Bicds dark red, pale scurfy pubescence ; IVood light, soft, brittle, not strong, 

 close-grained, brown tinged red. 



Native of Western North America (40-80 ft.). 



SEASIDE ALDER, Ahms maritima. 



Parks. Moist soil. September. 



Flowers monoecious, appearing in summer ; 3Iale catkins li-2| ins. long, 

 in axils of upper leaves, scurfy pubescent, glandular pitted, peduncles slender, 

 scales orange-brown, stamens bright orange ; Females solitary, in axils of lower 

 leaves, bright red at apex, light green below before opening, scales ovate, acute, 

 ciliate, peduncles stout, pubescent ; Fruit a cone of small 1-seeded nuts, ovate, 

 f in. long, 2 in. diam., scales thin, dark reddish-brown to nearly black, 

 persistent. 



Leaves alternate, very variable, oblong to obovate, acute, acuminate, or 

 obtuse, narrowed at base, glandularly serrate, scurfy pubescence above, dark 

 green, 3-4 ins. long, l|-2 ins. broad, midrib, veins and petiole hairy and 

 glandular ; stipules oblong, acute, caducous. 



A deciduous tree, 20-30 ft.; or shrub, 15-20 ft. ; Branches spreading, slender ; 

 Tidgs yellowish-green, becoming orange or reddish-brown in winter, afterwards 

 ashy-grey; Buds acute, dark x*ed, scurfy pubescence; Bark smooth, brown; 

 Wood light, soft, close-grained, light brown. 



Native of N. America. 



WHITE ALDER, Almis rhombijblia. 



Parks. Moist soil, INIarch. 



Floivers monoecious, opening before leaves ; 3Iale catkins 40 ins. long ; 



Perianth 4-lobed ; Stamens 2-3, scales orange-brown ; Females, scales ovate or 



rounded ; Fruit a cone, \-\ in. long, scales lobed, nuts ovate, margin thin. 



Leaves alternate, ovate to orbicular, rounded or acute, narrowed towards 



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