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Blade of leaf much longer than broad. 

 Leaves evergreen. 



Edges of leaves prickly Holly (p. 52) 



Edges of leaves not prickly 



Loblolly Bay (p. 53) 



Leaves not evergreen. 



Leaves over five times as long as broad: nar- 

 row Black Willow (p. 45) 



Leaves averaging about three times as long as 

 broad. 

 Leaves sour to the taste, with fine sharp 



teeth Sounvood (p. 54) 



Leaves with two glands on the leaf stalk at 

 the base of the blade, fruit a small black 



cherry .. Choke Cherry (p. 51) 



Leaves as above, fruit a good-sized red or 



yellow plum. . . .Old Field Plums (p. 51) 



Leaves averaging less than three times as long 



as broad. 



Leaves with conspicuous parallel veins. 



Leaves blunt, obovate, sharply and finely 



toothed, hairy beneath. . . .Alder (p. 46) 



Leaves pointed, oblong, with long sharp 



teeth terminating the veins only ; whitish 



downy beneath.. ..Chinquapin (p. 46) 



Leaves pointed, ovate-oblong with long 



pointed teeth terminating the veins, and 



with smaller ones between. Bark smooth 



and dark gray Hornbeam (p. 46) 



Leaves pointed, rhombic-ovate, regularly 

 toothed and more or less velvety below; 

 bark peeling off in papery layers on 

 branches and younger parts of trunk. 



River Birch (p. 46) 

 Leaves without conspicuous parallel veins. 

 Leaves ovate lanceolate, rough, with coarse 

 teeth like a saw. Bark with thick corky 



warts Hackberry (p. 49) 



Leaves without teeth, generally three lobed, 

 but often simple or with only two 

 lobes Sassafras (p. 50) 



