42. 
THE ALDER. 
Alnus glutinosa. 
Puate 5, Fie. 9. 
AF the Alder leaf we have spoken in a 
. previous chapter. Here we need 
only add in connexion with its 
foliage, that it is of all our 
deciduous woodland ‘Trees, the 
one which is the last to succumb to 
autumnal influences. Although usually 
seen rather as a river-side shrub than as 
a Tree, it attains a height sometimes of 
more than sixty feet when growing in the most 
favourable of stream-side habitats. Its rate of 
growth is rapid, for it will not unfrequently attain. 
