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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



Wood heavy, hard, strong, brittle, close-grained, brown tinged with red, with thick nearly 

 white sapwood of 20-30 layers of annual growth. 



Distribution. Dry rocky hillsides, fence-rows and the sides of roads; Fairfield County, 

 Connecticut, and the valley of the lower Hudson River, New York, southward to south- 



Fig. 782 



eastern Virginia and to the Coast and Piedmont regions of North and South Carolina up to 

 altitudes of 2000 to the valley of the Savannah River (near Augusta, Georgia, Richmond 

 County, rare), and through southern Ohio to Indiana, southern Illinois, southern and 

 western Kentucky, Missouri and eastern Kansas; very abundant in Missouri from the 

 northeastern counties southward through the state. 



Often cultivated as an ornament of parks and gardens in the eastern United States, and 

 occasionally in western and northern Europe. 



4. Viburnum rufidulum Raf. Black Haw. 



Leaves elliptic to obovate or oval, rounded, acute, or short-pointed at apex, cuneate or 

 rounded at base, and finely serrate with slender apiculate straight or incurved teeth, cov- 



Fig. 783 



ered below and on the wings of the petiole with thick ferrugineous tomentum when they 

 unfold and at maturity coriaceous, dark green and very lustrous above, pale and dull be- 



