A Report on the Trees and Shrubs Growing Naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts: Originally Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1887 - Shrubs |
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acorn alder aments axil bark base bear oak beautiful beech beneath birch branches branchlets broad brown buds calyx catkins chestnut oak color common hazel cones covered cultivated deciduous diameter dots downy drupe durability England Europe European Beech feet high fertile flowers Figured in Michaux five foliage footstalk forest four fruit fuel gray grayish green ground growing growth hairy height hickory HORNBEAM husk inches long larch leaf leaves less lobes Loudon male flowers Massachusetts mature native nearly numerous ovary petioles pignut pignut hickory pine pitch pine pitch-pine plants Plate poplar purple Quercus recent shoots red oak reddish resemblance resinous roots rough roundish scales scarlet oak seeds sessile shellbark shrubs side slender smooth soil sometimes species spruce stamens stem stigmas surface swamp white oak Sylva tapering thin three inches timber trunk usually valuable varieties walnut white oak willow wood yellow yellowish young trees