Foster, Edwin W · Boston : Ginn and Company · leaf 107
not peelin layers, and has trian-gular black spots on thetrunk beneath everylimb. It loves barren, rockyplaces, aband(med farms,etc., and is sometimescalled old field hirch. Ithas a fine, delicate foli-age, which is not dupli-cated in the forest. Eachleaf swings from a long, slender stem, and every… … Fig. 107. Leaf of Gray Birch TREES HAVING SIMPLE LEAVES 99 50. The Beech. The difference in the leaf forms ofthe birch and beech is very marked. Both have toothededges, but in the beech the spaces between the teeth areso remarkably shallow that one has to search for them. ^ £/ \ :^^^ ^^i- ill…
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