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The leaves of this tree are much larger than those 

 of the sugar maple, and often droop conspicuously at 

 the ends like the leaves of the Norway maple. That 

 you may make no mistake about this tree, you pass, 

 after the rock mass spoken of above, but on your 

 left (the rock mass is on your right), a Turkey oak, 

 and, beyond it, a fine red oak. The Turkey oak has 

 dark, black, heavily ridged bark; the red has rather 

 smoothish (compared with the Turkey), smoky, or 

 slaty-gray bark. The leaves of the red oak are bristle- 

 tipped at the lobes. The lobes of the Turkey oak are 

 angulated. 



Aralia spinosa. (Hercules's Club. Devil's Walk- 

 ing Stick. Angelica Tree. No. 42.) You will find 

 a small cluster of these odd looking shrubs close by 

 the Walk, just as it bends away from the Drive, to 

 the west, at the place where the Drive passes over 

 Transverse Road No. 4. You can pick them out easily 

 by the fierce spines that bristle out all over their 

 stems. Truly they are well named — ^Devil's Walking 

 Stick. The leaves are quite large, compound (twice 

 or thrice odd-pinnate), and clustered at the ends of 

 the branches. The leaflets are ovate, pointed, glaucous 

 on the undersides, and have serrated margins. In 

 July or August the shrub flowers, in large, conspic- 

 uous panicles of many-flowered umbels — white or 

 greenish. These change in September to conspicuous 

 clusters of cool crimson berries, about quarter of an 

 inch in diameter. These berries are quite distinctly 

 five-ribbed, and are certainly very pretty to look upon 

 at this season (fall) of the year. 



