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CTJPrLIFER.'E 



nvary ronipressed, 2-chanibered, 2-o\'ulod ; Jrm'l small, winged, 

 I -seeded. (Name, the Classical Latin name of the tree.) 



T. R. paidida CWhite Birch). — A beautiful forest tree which has 

 been styled "the Lady of the A\'oods," with smooth, silvery-white 

 hark, scaling off in transverse strips ; capper-brown branches with 

 resinous tubercles, often weeping ; rhomboid, irregularly serrate 

 leaves on long stalks, truncate at their base, and with raised veins 

 on the upper surface ; slaiiiiinHc ealkiiis L 2 in. long, pendulous; 



4/./.-r). 



jniitiiig ta!l;ins sub-t rect at first, deciduous. — \\'ood3 ; common 

 — Fl. jVpril, May. Perennial. 



2. B. dlha (Common ISirch). — Often only a bush ; lieigs, and 

 sometimes leaves, downy ; haves always rounded at the base with 

 the veins prominent on the under surface. — \\'oiid3 ; common. — 

 Fl. April, May. Perennial. 



^. B. iiilcrnicilia, a small tree with /t'liivw smaller, more orbicular, 

 and more bluntly tootlied than the pr.eceding, and ealkins only 



