HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Green or Mountain Alder 



A. crispa. — Catkins appearing with the leaves, the pistillate 

 from scaly buds, slender-peduncled, short, clustered; staminate, 

 slender, without scaly covering, i to 2 inches long, from buds 

 which were formed the season before. Leaves, oval, slightly heart- 

 shape, downy on the veins underneath, serrulate with very finely 

 cut teeth, short-petioled, dark green above, paler underneath. 

 June. 



Near the coast, along the mountains from Maine to North 

 Carolina and westward across the country. 2 to 4 feet high. 



Speckled or Hoary Alder 



A, inckna.. — Catkins, appearing before the leaves, the pistillate 

 about \ inch long, nearly as broad; staminate, 3 inches long, 

 drooping, both accompanied with 5 -toothed bracts, heaves, oval 

 or ovate, usually pointed at apex, finely double-toothed, with 

 smaller teeth between the larger, pale green, whitish or downy 

 underneath, with prominent veins; dark green above, with 

 short petioles. 



A shrub, or sometimes a small tree, 8 to 20 feet high, found 

 in wet places, as swamps or damp thickets, from New York 

 and Pennsylvania northward. The common alder with 

 which we are familiar along our streams. 



Scrub Chestnut Oak. Chinquapin Oak 



Quercas prindides. — Family, Beech. Color, greenish or green- 

 ish yellow. Flowers, the staminate in long, drooping catkins 

 composed of many stamens surrounded by a 6-lobed perianth; 

 pistillate, single, sessile, borne on last season's twigs. These pro- 

 duce acorns of which the cup is less than half the size of the nut, 

 matured the first season. Leaves, oblong to lanceolate, not 

 lobed, coarsely toothed, acute, on short petioles, bright green 

 above, whitish and softly downy beneath, especially the leaves 

 of young branches. 



Low, branching shrubs, 3 to 15 feet high, in dry soil over all 

 the States east of the Mississippi River. Most of this Family 

 are large trees. This and the next should be ranked as 

 shrubs, since they never attain great size. They are found 

 almost everywhere in dry, sandy soil. 



Bear or Black Scrub Oak 



Q. ilicifblia.. — Flowers, much like the last. Leaves, obovate, 

 2 to 5 inches long, lobed, sharply pointed, broadly triangular, the 



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