Handbook of Ti;eks of the Xhim ii ij;x S-i 



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r.vxAi.A. 359 



This is a small nordiorii irco, occasionally 

 under most favni'al.lc cdiiilil iuns, alfainiiiL; the 

 lici.ulit (if 125 or ;!ll ft. «itli trunk (i to S or 

 (•xcu|itionally 12 inches in ilianicter, and is com- 

 monly a tall shrub. It inhaldts rich wcU- 

 drained soil ahnij,' the borders of forests, par- 

 tially cleared land and fence rows, \vhcre its 

 peculiar habit of ramification easily distin- 

 guishes it from its associates. It puts out 

 horizontal and upward inclined strightisb 

 branches with many npturned branchlets on the 

 upper side and but few if any beneath. 

 This feature is best seen wlu'ii the tree is leaf- 

 less and it is then q\iite as interesting,' an ob- 

 ject as in summer, Avhen it is conspicuous on 

 account of its Hat sprays of foliatje inter- 

 spersed with clusters of while flowers, or later 

 red-stemmed clusters of blue berries. 



The wood is licavy, a cubic foot weijliinn; 



41.73 lbs., hard and veiw close-grained, adapteil 



to use in turnery, etc.i 



Lrart's mostly altei-nate and clustered at the 

 ends of the liraniiilets, ovate to oval, .'t-o in. lonir. 

 vvedKC-shapcd or somewhat roundi'd at liase, lon','- 

 acuminate, obscurely crenulate, pale toraentose at 

 first, but at mat>u-ity thin, dai-k irreen and slah- 

 rriiis or nearly so above, pale and appvessed puhes- 

 cent benealli. wilh [u-ominenr areuate veins; 

 petioles slendei-. iiuhe.s.'eu t. Ilinr,}-K iMay-.Tune) 

 creamy white, aliout i, in. I<in.^' in loose com- 

 pound terminal e.\'Tni's ; petals narrow, rounded at 

 apex and retlexed. I'nilt a suliKlohiise blue drupe, 

 hi in. in diana-ler. depressed at apex, liiiped wi1!i 

 the remnant of the st.^'le, in loose red-stenuned 

 clusters; tlesh thin and hitter and short ovoid 

 somewhat pointed L'-celled thick-walled nutlet with 

 many lonjiitudinai i^rooves. 



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