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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 
rection. The Beech (Fagus Ferruginea), has a straight 
trunks but it is remarkably smooth^ of a bluish-grey^, with 
white and dark patches : its branches are longer and 
straighter^ and the twigs come to a finer pointy than those 
of the maple. The Basswood (Tilia Glabra J , is much 
like the maple^, but the trunk is usually rounder, and more 
pillar-like, and though fissured like it, yet the fissures are 
more regular, and it is free from those knobs which cha- 
racterize the sugar -maple. The Elm ( Uhmis Americana J, 
growing in the open clearing, with a full supply of light 
ELM ( Ulmtis ATnericana ) m a clearing. 
