INDEX

Acacia, rose, 131

Acer, 21

dasycarpum, 26

negundo, 28, 29

pennsylvanicum, 27, 28

platanoides, 29, 30

pseudo-platanus, 30, 31

rubrum, 23, 25

saccharinum, 25, 26

saccharum, 22, 23, 26

spicatum, 28

Aceracæ, 21

Æsculus glabra, 17

hippocastanum, 15, 17

Ailanthus, 160

glandulosa, 160, 161

Amelanchier, 174

canadensis, 173

Angelica tree, 162

Apple tree, 167

Aralia spinosa, 162, 163

Araliaceæ, 153, 162

Ash, American, 36

black, 38

buds, color of, 40

downy, 37

European, 39

excrescences on the, 36

green, 36

red, 37

seeds, 41

white, 36

Ashes, 9, 35, 41

Aspen, 179

American, 179

large-toothed, 181

Balm of Gilead, 182

Bark, 6, 7

color of, 7

taste of, 7

Basswood, 141

small leaved, 141

white, 141

Beech, 7, 77

American, 77

blue, 72

European, 79

purple, 80

Betula, 61

alba, 68

lenta, 63, 64

lutea, 64, 66

nigra, 66

papyrifera, 60, 61

populifolia, 62, 63

pumila, 68

Betulaceæ, 59

Bigelow, 158

Bignoniaceæ, 153, 158

Birch, 59

American, 62

beer, 64

black, 63

canoe, 7, 60

dwarf, 68

European white, 68

gray, 62

paper, 60

red, 66

river, 66

sweet, 63

white, 60, 62

Birch, yellow, 64

Birches, 59

Bosc, 169

Boutcher, 80

Box elder, 28

Branches, 6, 7, 10

Bryant, quoted, 119

Buckeye, Ohio, 17

Buckeyes, 15

Buds, 6, 10, 11

accessory, 11

adventitious, 11

axillary, 6, 10

collateral, 11

flower, 11

flowers in the, 10

latent, 11

lateral, 6, 10

scales of, 9

superposed, 11

terminal, 6, 10

winter, 11

Bundle-scars, 10

Butternut, 11, 45

sugar from sap of, 47

Buttonwood, 117

Cambium layer, 5, 6

Carpinus, 73

caroliniana, 72, 74

Castanea, 82

dentata, 81, 83

Catalpa, hardy, 158

speciosa, 158, 160

Celtis, 101

occidentalis, 112, 113

Cercis canadensis, 136

Cherry, black, 7, 171

bird, 172

choke, 172

pin, 172

red, 172

sweet, 172

Chestnut, 77, 81

Spanish, 82

Cladrastis, 134

lutea, 134

Cook, 80

Cork tree, 89

Cornaceæ, 120

Cornel, flowering, 121

Cornus, 122

florida, 121, 122

Cottonwood, 183

swamp, 184

Cucumber tree, 155

Dogwood, 120

flowering, 121

poison, 121

Du Hamel, quoted, 143

Elm, 101

American, 5, 10, 101, 102

cork, 7, 107, 144

Dutch, 111

English, 101, 108

feathered, 11, 103

Lancaster, 103

red, 105

rock, 107

Scotch, 111

slippery, 7, 105

Thomas’s, 107

white, 102

wych, 111

Elms, 101

Emerson, quoted, 37, 39, 87, 91, 94, 108, 119, 183

Evelyn, quoted, 41, 80, 190

Fagaceæ, 77

Fagus, 79

americana, 77

Fagus sylvatica, 78, 80

Fraxinus, 35

americana, 36

excelsior, 39

nigra, 38

pennsylvanica, 37

Fruit, 8

Gerard, quoted, 70, 111, 180

Gleditsia, 133

triacanthos, 132, 133

Gilpin, 80, 119

Gray, quoted, 47, 119

Growth, 6, 9, 10

annual rings of, 6

Gymnocladus dioicus, 135

Hackberry, 101, 112

Hackmatack, 187

Hamamelidaceæ, 141

Hamamelis, 144, 146

Hamerton, quoted, 69

Heartwood, 5, 6

Hercules’ club, 162

Hickories, 9, 45

Hickory, bitternut, 53

mockernut, 7, 51

pignut, 54

shagbark, 7, 49

shellbark, 49

white-heart, 51

Hicoria, 45, 51

alba, 51

glabra, 54, 56

minima, 53, 54

ovata, 49

Hippocastanaceæ, 15

Holmes, quoted, 109, 118

Homer, quoted, 180

Hop hornbeam, 8, 71

Hornbeam, 7, 72

Horsechestnut, 8, 9, 15, 41, 143

Horsechestnut buds, 15, 16

flowers, 16

leaf-scars, 15

twigs, 15

Indian bean, 158

Internodes, 9

Ironwood, 71

Jekyll, quoted, 69

Judas tree, 136

Juglandaceæ, 45

Juglans, 45, 47

cinerea, 45

nigra, 48

regia, 49

Juneberry, 173

Kentucky coffee tree, 129, 135, 160, 161

Knight, 169

Laburnum vulgare, 136

Larch, 187

American, 187

European, 188

Larix, 188

americana, 187

europæa, 188

Lauraceæ, 141, 147

Leaf-scars, 9, 10

Leguminosæ, 129

Lenticels, 8, 16

Lime trees, 143

Linden, 141

common, 141

European, 141, 143

Linnæus, 28, 67, 143, 145, 146

Liquidambar, 144, 145

styraciflua, 144, 146

Liquidamber, 7, 144

Liriodendron, 153, 157

tulipifera, 155

Locust, clammy, 131

common, 129

honey, 132

Loudon, 31, 111, 124, 148

Lowell, quoted, 24

Lubbock, quoted, 156

Magnolia acuminata, 155

glauca, 153, 154

swamp, 153

tripetala, 154, 155

Magnoliaceæ, 153, 157

Maple, 21

ash-leaved, 28

bird’s eye, 23

curled, 25

moosewood, 27

mountain, 7, 28

Norway, 29

red, 10, 11, 23

rock, 22

silver, 25

striped, 7, 27

sugar, 7, 22

swamp, 23

sycamore, 30

white, 25

Maples, 9, 21, 41

Maple sugar, 22, 23

Mathews, 80

Medullary rays, 6

Michaux, 55, 79, 88, 145

Milton, quoted, 109

Moracæ, 122

Morus, 123

alba, 123, 124

rubra, 123

Mountain ash, 170

Mulberry, red, 123

white, 122, 124

Nettle tree, 112

Nodes, 9

Nyssa, 120

sylvatica, 120

Oak apples, 93

bear, 97

black, 92

bur, 88

chestnut, 89

chinquapin, 90

dwarf chestnut, 90

mossy-cup, 88, 144

overcup, 88

pin, 96

post, 91

red, 93

rock chestnut, 89

rough, 91

scarlet, 95

scrub, 97

swamp white, 86

white, 85

Oaks, 9, 77, 83, 84

Oleaceæ, 35

Ostrya, 72

virginiana, 71, 72

Ovid, quoted, 110

Pallas, quoted, 182

Peach tree, 172

buds of, 173

Pear tree, 169

Pepperidge, 120

Phyllotaxy, 81, 82

Pinaceæ, 187

Pith, 6, 8

color, 8

form, 8

rays, 6

Plane tree, 117

Platanaceæ, 117

Platanus, 119

occidentalis, 117, 119

orientalis, 119

Plum, 172

Poplar, balm of Gilead, 182

balsam, 182

Carolina, 183

cottonwood, 183

Lombardy, 184

necklace, 183

swamp cottonwood, 184

white, 184

Populus, 177, 181

balsamifera, 182

deltoides, 183, 184

grandidentata, 181, 182

heterophylla, 184

tremuloides, 179, 181

Prunus, 172

avium, 172

domestica, 172

pennsylvanica, 172

persica, 172

serotina, 171, 172

virginiana, 172

Pyrus, 168

americana, 170, 171

communis, 169

malus, 167

sambucifolia, 171

Quercus, 83, 85

alba, 85

coccinea, 95, 96

macrocarpa, 88, 89

minor, 91, 92

palustris, 96, 97

platanoides, 86, 88

prinus, 89

prinoides, 90, 91

pumila, 97

rubra, 93, 95

velutina, 92, 93

Redbud, 136

Robinia, 130

hispida, 131

pseud-acacia, 129, 130

viscosa, 131

Rosaceæ, 167

Rowan tree, 170

Salicaceæ, 177

Salix alba, 177

babylonica, 178

nigra, 179

Sapwood, 5

Sargent, quoted, 104, 107, 124, 135, 145

Sassafras, 7, 141, 147

Sassafras sassafras, 147, 149

Scars, 9

fruit, 9

leaf, 9

stipule, 9

Service berry, 173

Scott, quoted, 69, 180

Shad bush, 173

Shenstone, quoted, 70

Silkworms, 124, 125

Simaroubaceæ, 153, 159

Sour gum tree, 120

Spenser, quoted, 180

Stems, 8, 9

Stipules, 9

Sugar berry, 112

Sumac poison, 121

Sweet bay, 153

Sweet gum, 144

Sycamore, 117

Tamarack, 187

Tennyson, quoted, 40, 41

Thoreau, 24

quoted, 65, 148

Thorns, 8

Tilia americana, 141

Tiliaceæ, 141

Tree of heaven, 160

Trees, 3, 4

age of, 6, 8, 9

dool, 31

Trunk, tree, 5

deliquescent, 5

dicotyledonous, 5

excurrent, 5

Tulip tree, 153, 155

Tupelo, 7, 120

Twigs, 8

Ulmaceæ, 101

Umbrella tree, 154

Ulmus, 101, 105

americana, 102

campestris, 108, 110, 112

Ulmus montana, 111, 112

pubescens, 105, 106

racemosa, 107, 108

Vascular bundles, 10

Virgil, quoted, 110

Virgilia, 135

Walnut, black, 48

English, 49

Walnuts, 8, 9, 45

Willow, black, 179

“pussy,” 178

weeping, 7, 178

white, 177

Witch-hazel, 146

Wood, 5, 6

silver grain of, 6

Wordsworth, quoted, 189

Yellowwood, 129, 134

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