. Nos arbres indigènes et la façon de les identifier ; une étude de leurs habitudes populaires et leurs particularités. Les arbres. Calice de la famille de l'ORME, campanulée.-de 4 à 9 lobes, pubescentes, vert, teintées de rouge, devenant brun en passant ; lobes imbriqués en bouton. Corolle. - Vouloir. Étamines.-quatre à neuf ou autant que les lobes du calice et oppo- site à eux, exsert ; longs, minces filaments ; anthères rouge vif, deux cellules, les cellules ouvrant longitudinalement ; pollen avant que le stigmate à maturité. Pistil. - Ovaire supérieur, deux cellules ; deux styles, vert clair ; ovules solitaires. Fruits.-Samaras, ailé, maturin

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. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. ELM FAMILY Calyx.—Campanulate, four to nine-lobed, hairy, green, tinged with red, becoming brown in fading ; lobes imbricate in bud. Corolla. — Wanting. Stamens.—Four to nine or as many as the calyx lobes and oppo- site to them, exserted ; filaments long, slender ; anthers bright red, two-celled, cells opening longitudinally ; pollen shed before the stigmas mature. Pistil. — Ovary superior, two-celled ; styles two, light green ; ovules solitary. Fruit.—Samaras, winged all round, maturing as the leaves appear and clinging to the branch in clusters, ovate, one-seeded, one-half inch long, two-beaked, sharp points incurved and closing the notch, green, smooth on faces, densely ciliate at margins. Cotyledons flat, fleshy. Wlio knows not the 'vine prop' elm, with its lofty grace and slight Itene- dictive droop, the oriole's nest still swinging from the end ot some liranch? — Eorn-i TiiuM, s. White Elm and Silver Maple are the first trees to accept the challenge of March that spring has come, and they seal their acceptance with flowers not leaves, for the law of the wild wood is that forest trees shall protltice flowers Itefore leaves. The flower-buds are usually borne. Fluwering Spray uf White Elm, Uliiiu^ triiicr/cana. on the topmost branches of an elm tree, and even in February they respond to the kindly influence of a few warm days by becoming swollen and shining. When March stops for a day or two to take his l:)reath and the sun shines and the warm air comes u;') from the south, these swollen buds shake off their brown settles and come out as little clusters of eight to 234. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York,

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