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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



anthers; disk of the pistillate flower cup-shaped; ovary ovoid or ovoid-oblong, with 3 or 

 rarely 4 broad irregularly crenately lobed stigmas. Fruit ovoid, acute or obtuse,, slightly 



Fig. 123 



pitted, thick-walled, 3 or rarely 4-valved, \'-%' long; pedicel stout, from ^'-^ long; seeds 

 ovoid, acute, light brown, nearly \' in length. 



A tree, occasionally 100 high, with a short trunk 5-6 in diameter, stout spreading 

 branches pendulous at the ends and forming a broad rather open graceful head, and slender 

 terete branchlets light green and glabrous, becoming light yellow before winter, dark or 



Fig. 124 



light gray more or less tinged with yellow in their second year, and only slightly roughened 

 by the small 3-lobed leaf-scars. Winter-buds ovoid, acute, with light green lustrous 



