BIRCH FAMILY. 327 
, L. — aves cordate- 
Sorr or te sass ETULA. Siete 
Birch. Cherry Birch. ; 
on 30-60 feet high, and 1-2 fee 
meter ; tg nei Picsepiee slender, iP 
able, smooth ai dotted with small white 
cars, Leaves mol inches Ing, mygeerer aoa 
eatin Pa taba tly 
somewhat vai Lage atten: a ee veal 
at base—the seeince sprinkled with 
long hairs thet pest and nerves Maran 
hairy ; petioles about half a an inch long; pilose. 
Staminate a —3 inches lone, larger than 
tved, hirsutely ciliate. Nut compressed, 
elliptic-obovate, acute at each end, with a iliate, but 
membra us margin which is broader ae the summit, and somewhat c 
h wer than in the 
Mountain forests : throughout the "United putes. Fi. April. Fr. August. 
Obs. The wood of this species is colored reddish—somethi ng like that 
of Be W Wild Cherry ( eas serotina, DC.) ; and it is used, like that, in 
cabinet-ware, bedsteads, &c. The bark and young. s are 
pleasantly aromatic,—and were formerly employed in domestic pipe: 
mon ort &e. The Yellow. Birch ( f exce el’sa, Ait. _* whic 
2. AL’NUS, Tournef. ALDER. 
[The Latin name for the Alder.] 
Stamm mewhat clustered, cylindric, drooping, witli the 
scales pees a Bivaciolate beneath, 1—3-flowered. Calyx _ — 
ros ea inserted at the bene sete the calyx-lobes, and opposite them ; 
with the seales imbricated, ry 
A flowered. Cane atu 4 sale sepals oe in to the ak 
all 
persistent and becom under 
each neal sessile, 2 <allet ; ovules dotiieny, atlas sa stigmas 2, ait 
form. ese a es winged. 
ae i serrula’ id. ial obovate, psigeierggr 2 lg ser- 
eoriegs sad ar green on both sides ; ; stipules oval, : 
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