Some Short Notes 
DESIGNED TO ASSIST THE READER IN 
IDENTIFYING THE TREES ILLUST- 
RATED IN THIS VOLUME. 
The sixty photographs which precede include all the very 
commonest, and some of the less common, trees and larger shrubs to 
be found in the British Isles. In the case of the willows, the 
varieties are so numerous that it was impossible to do more than a 
little in the way of illustration, and in the case of the firs and pines, 
leading and typical species only could be included. It has been our 
object, within the narrow limits at our disposal, to do everything we 
could to ensure certainty in identification. We have therefore 
thought it best to show a branch of each tree with, wherever it was 
found possible, either the flower or the fruit of each. It was 
obviously impossible to show also the whole tree or even the bole, 
but with our little photographs in his hand the student can hardly 
tail to be able to satisfy himself of the identity of most of the 
trees he will come across. Once familiarity with each species is 
gained by careful observation throughout the season, he will come 
to know them so well that he will be able to identify them in winter 
by the bole and habit of growth as easily as he can in summer by 
the foliage. In this way we believe he will obtain a more thorough 
knowledge of the peculiarities and characteristics of the various 
trees than if his way had been made smoother for him by more 
Copious illustration. The interest of a walk in the country is 
enormously increased when the walker is able to recognise and name 
the trees and flowers he meets with, and the earnest wish of the 
publishers of this book is to awaken a taste for such study of nature 
by the books which have appeared and will continue to appear in 
this series. 
Indigenous trees are distinguished by an asterisk *. 
The Lime Tree or Linden* (frontispiece), is to be seen 
everywhere, and is easily recognisable from the leaves alone, which 
are of a bright, tender green. 
There are three common species of Maples, of which the 
Sycamore*, known as the Plane in Scotland (page 7) is much the 
commonest, and is very’ familiar to everybody. A careful com- 
parison of the leaves and fruit in the photograph given, with those 
of the Norway Maple (page 6) and Field Mapie* (page 3 ) will 
reveal unmistakable differences, sufficient for certain identification, 
See also note on the Plane Tree (page 4 q). 
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