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oblong or sometimes oblong-lanceolate, 114’-4’ long, pointed 
or blunt at the apex, heart-shaped at base, dark green and 
rough above, hairy below, with rather prominent netted vein- 
ing, toothed above the middle. Fruit globular, light, lustrous 
brown, borne on short curved stalks. Seeds globose with four 
prominent ribs. 
Dry soil of southern Texas. 
The wood jis similar to Celtis Mississippiensis, from which it 
is not generally distinguished. The tree is used for street 
and ornamental planting. 
3. Celtis reticulata Torrey. Thick Leaved Hackberry. A 
small bushy tree 40°50° high with rounded crown. Bark 
bluish gray and covered with numerous corky warts on the 
older parts of the stem. Leaves thick and very strongly 
netted veined, entire or toothed above the middle, dark green 
and smooth or somtimes rough above, paler and somewhat 
hairy beneath, with prominent reticulate veining. Fruit 
globular, red, 14’ to 14’ long, borne on stalks which are usually 
longer than the subtending leaf petiole. 
Kansas to Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, and Lower 
California. It is widely distributed in Texas. 
Uses similar to Celtis Mississippiensis. - 
4. Celtis Mississippiensis Bosc. Mississippi Hackberry <A 
tree 60°-80° high and 2°-3° in diameter. The branches are 
somewhat pendulous and form a broad rounded crown. Bark 
light gray with corky warts, 1/2’-2/3’ thick. eaves broadly 
ovate to ovate-lanceolate, long pointed somewhat curved, un- 
equal at base, entire or with never more than one or two 
teeth, firm dark green and smooth ahove, paler below, 37-4’ 
long, 34’-3’ wide. Fruit ovoid-globose 147-14’ long, bright 
orange red, borne on a stalk which is somewhat elongated. 
The tree differs from other hackberries particularly in the 
size ot the fruit and in the entire margined leaf. It is the 
commonest of our haekberry trees. 
Indiana to Florida, and west to Missouri and Texas. 
Used for fuel, fencing, and to some extent for flooring. The 
commonest street shade tree in central Texas. 
