1892,] The Identification of Trees in Winter. 189 
the purpose of giving practical assistance to people of that 
state on questions relating to botany, especially questions of 
practical utility. It certainly seems as though a ready means 
of distinguishing the ligneous plants of their states would not 
be the most unwelcome contribution which these institutions 
tures have been found serviceable in the identification of ligne- 
sn posed buds are numbered in the order of their appearance and de- 
erals.. In Liviodendron, fig. 14, $ indicates the point 
£ proper with the sheath formed by the purer n the 
ext 
Fates te the leaf itself is represented onl ascar. In Augus, fig. 17, 
The two % leaf found after the exterior scales been 
m of : 
amount of action. €se figures have been cho: f L 
for su ou erial at hand, ¢#ese have been found to be the most typical also 
ears 
mee Wines te Asimina triloba Dunal. ¢. Flower bud. 2. Cercis Canadensis 
Seating b 's fulva Michx. 4, bud subtended by two leaf scars, the latter ga 
‘ ‘ 1 . 
> s rune, ef in the phyllotaxy; 4. tis occidentalis 
ron L. Notice ho., 6. lopsis quinquefolia Mic -oden- 
Winter, g Ow readily this species is dist guished the last in the 
m 
- Cel inguis from 1 
astrus scandens L. 9. Smilax hispida Muhl. 4, the bud in the 
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of vears by aS aren as is here suggested has been in preparation for a number 
which are ace our ablest botanists. We have recently inspected the drawings 
*few years at ieee and the work will be ready for publication within 
