FOREST YEGETATION. 35 
leafed variety enters into combination with ‘almost every kind of 
timber growing in New England. On all its soils and in every 
clihate it appears to retain its general characteristics with Aa 
oe po Yen but the broad-leaved yellow box grows only 
n the e poorer soils in cold localities ; they both, sa a pretee 
high are vid Poop. 2 ) ve 
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usually oe Habits, §c.: This blackbut grows gene mally 
‘on granitic soils, but it frequently occurs on the junctions of 
basaltic soils with those of poorer formation. It combines with 
pipiens iron-bark, oak, and various kinds of gum 
Wurst Box.—£. Hemiphloia ; nage Heniphvie (12).— 
The average height of this tree is from 50 to 70 feet, and the 
diameter from 18 to 30 inches. The Park 4 is persistent on trunk, 
and branches smooth. It is light-coloured and slightly fibrous, 
and is used for covering outbuildings, huts, &c.; but it is much 
more liable to crack than the bark of the EZ. oblique, and is not 
nearly so durable. The wood is hard, iy i and d yeh it is 
y t. It 
nt, as also th 
are nerve ; and e veins gee better defined and further 
apart than in most other leaves of the genus haa a e 
width of the leaf is about 2 inches, and length 5. The petiole 
seldom exceeds } an inch in length. On some trees the leaves 
appear to be partly alternate and partly opposite. The alternations. 
on all ¢ are e irregular. Many of the leaves on saplings are nearly 
it, are concave, as though the internal portion of a 
saf__srew more rapidly than the margin. els 
winbele ge wortnapd contain ig fiorets, six surrounding, cae 
e. edicel is very short, and appears 
tr oP 
be be shah the termination of the calyx. peduncle is 
early } an inch long. The calyx is Misse Sines Se tae ss the 
and before = latter falls off, the former is marked: 
iy four or five -iaamaoees ribs. The vessel is-four or oy called 
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