GUIDE TO THE TREES 



6. Long, slender, finely serrate The Willow 



6. Coarsely crenately-toothed The Chestnut Oaks 



6. Obovate or oval wavy -toothed Witch Hazel 



The Plums 

 The Cherries 

 Crab-Apple 



6. Serrate 



Sour wood 



June-berry 

 The Silver-bells 

 The Beeches 

 7. Lobes entire 8 

 7. Lobes slightly indented 9 

 7. Lobes coarsely toothed 10 



8. Apex truncate, three-lobed .................... Tulip-tree 



8. Lobes and sinuses rounded ...... Oaks (White Oak Group) 



8. Lobes rounded, lobes 2 or 3 .................... Sassafras 



8. Lobed or coarsely toothed, under surface cov- 



ered with white down .................. White Poplar 



9. Five-lobed, finely serrate ......................... Sweet Gum 



9. Variously lobed, irregularly toothed ............ The Mulberries 



10. Irregularly toothed, lobes bristle pointed. . Oaks (Red Oak 



Group} 

 10. Leaf broad, lobes coarsely toothed .............. Sycamore 



4. Margins entire n 



4-Margins serrate 



4. Margins lobed .................................. The Maples 



1 1. Ovate, veins prominent .............. Flowering Dogwood 



1 1 . Heart-shaped, large ...................... The Calalpas 



ii. Oval ...................................... Fringe Tree 



2. Leaves pinnately compound 12 



2. Leaves bi- pinnately compound 13 



2.-Leaves palmately compound ............ j ^ ^Tclstnuts 



12. Alternate 14 

 12. Opposite 15 

 14. Margin of leaflets entire 16 



14. Margin of leaflets with two or three teeth atbase../4zz*fM#.? 



( The Sumachs 



,4-Margin of leaflet. serrate. . . 



[ The Hickories 

 16. Leaflets oval, apex obtuse ...................... The Locusts 



1 6. Leaflets oblong apex acute ................... Poison Sumach 



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