Trees, Shrubs and Vines 



LEAVES COMPOUND: 

 Pinnate : 



Alternate: 



edge of leaflets serrate or lobed : 44-46 (' ' Na- 

 tive Trees," 115, 118) 

 Opposite : 46^8 

 Palmate : 49 (" Native Trees," 129) 



TREES THORNY: 



leaves simple: 50, 51, 3 (" Native Trees," 140) 

 leaves compound (pinnate or trifoliate) : 52, 53 



EVERGREENS AND CONE-BEARING TREES : 

 strictly evergreen : 



leaves 2-5-clustered, slender, needle-like, I'-io' long : 



54-58 

 leaves many in a whorl, short, slender, stiff : 59, 60 

 leaves not clustered nor whorled, each growing from a sep- 

 arate point, very short (X'-2'). except in 62 

 slender, but flat : 61-66, 73 



awl-shaped, not flat, usually stiff: 67-70 ("Native 

 Trees," 162) 

 leaves 4-whorled, J^', prickly : 71, 72 

 leaves extremely small (iV- /4)< scarcely recognizable as 

 leaves, flat and roundish, or slender and often prickly, 

 the branches with the closely appressed (when not 

 prickly) leaves forming more or less ^at sprays : 74- 

 76 



Trees not evergreen, but deciduous ; cone-bearing ; leaf }4'-i' 

 or more, needle-like, pliant, whorled : 77, 78 



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