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neath. Bract rather large, the peduncle decurrent almost to 
the base. Fruit hairy. In woods New Brunswick to Manitoba, 
south to Georgia and west to North Dakota and Texas. 
The wood is soft, tough, light, and is used in quantities for 
furniture and in carpentry. There is no merchantable supply 
produced in Texas. 
2. Tilia leptophylla (Vant.) Small. A medium sized for- 
est tree with smooth bark and slender twigs. Leaves thin. 
ovate, long pointed, toothed, smooth above, more or less hairy 
beneath. Bracts sessile or almost so. Fruit globose, hairy. 
In Louisiana and Texas extending north to Missouri. 
BUETTNERIACEAE H. B. K. Chocolate Family. 
Firmiana Marsigli. Japanese Varnish Tree. 
Firmiana platanifolia (L.) R. Brown. A shrub or small 
round topped tree 30°-35° high with smooth bark and stout 
green twigs. Leaves large, alternate, 3-5 lobed, smooth dark 
green above, hairy and paler beneath. Flowers greenish in 
clusters. Fruit a capsule which opens at maturity into five 
leathery follicles expesing the seeds. 
Natives of Asia introduced into our area and planted for 
ornament. 
TAMARICACEAE Lindley. Tamarisk Family. 
Tamarix L. 
Tamarix gallica L. Tamarisk. Salt Cedar. A shrub or 
low tree with spreading, wand-like branches and numerous 
branchlets. Leaves scale-like, clasping or sheathing. Flow- 
ers pink in dense plume-like clusters. Fruit a pyramidal- 
shaped capsule. 
Native of southern Europe, introduced and growing spon- 
taneously in our area, especially near the coast. Cultivated 
for ornament. 
LAURACEAE Lindley. Laurel Family. 
Aromatic trees or shrubs with simple, alternate, opposite 
