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furnished at the apex with tufts of long white hairs. Fruit ovate, ^'-\' long, bright 

 orange-red, with thin dry flesh and a smooth light brown nut. 



A tree, G0-80 high, with a short trunk 2-3 in diameter, spreading sometimes 

 pendulous branches forming a broad and often graceful head, and brauchlets light 

 gref n, glabrous or covered with pale pubescence when they first appear, bright red- 

 dish brown, rather lustrous, and marked by oblong pale lenticels and narrow elevated 

 horizontal leaf-scars showing the ends of 3 fibro-vaseular bundles during their first 

 winter; often much smaller and sometimes shrubby. Winter-buds ovate, pointed, 

 t y-jf' long, with chestnut-brown puberulous scales. Bark '-' thick, light blue- 

 green, and covered with prominent excrescences. Wood rather soft, not strong, 

 close-grained, light yellow, with thick lighter colored sapwood; confounded com- 

 mercially with the wood of Celtis occidental!* and used for the same purposes. 



Distribution. Rich bottom-lands and the banks of streams or occasionally dry 

 limestone hills from southern Indiana and Illinois through Kentucky, Tennessee, and 

 Alabama to the shores of Bay Biscayne, Florida, and through Missouri, Arkansas, 

 and Texas to Nuevo Leon; also in Bermuda; very abundant and of its largest size 

 in the basin of the Lower Ohio River; the common species in central and western 

 Kentucky and Tennessee; rare in the Gulf states; exceedingly common west of the 

 Mississippi River, especially in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and in Xuevo Leon. 

 In Texas gradually passing into a form with thicker and more conspicuously reticu- 

 late-venulose leaves. This is 



Celtis Mississippieiisis, var. reticulata, Sarg. 



Leaves broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, rounded or cordate and usually oblique 

 and very unequal at the base, entire or rarely furnished above the middle with few 

 large teeth, thick and coriaceous, dark green and glabrous or scabrate above, pale 



yellow-green, glabrous or hirsute, and covered by a network of prominent yellow 

 veinlets below. Fruit \'-\' long, dark orange-red. 



A small bushy tree, 40-50 high, with stout branches, a short trunk covered with 

 smooth blue-gray bark roughened by prominent excrescences usually interrupted or 

 broken into short lengths; in arid regions often a low shrub. 



Distribution. Texas, in the neighborhood of Dallas, southward to the Rio 



