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Sweet Viburnum 227

Black Haw 229

Red Pine 230

Scotch Pine 230

Bald Cypress 230

European Larch 230

Norway Spruce 230

White Willow 230

Osage Orange 230

Norway Maple 231

Sycamore Maple 231

Gray Birch 231

Horse Chestnut 231

Catalpa 231

Tree of Heaven 231

Kentucky Coffee Tree 231

Native Shrubs and Shrubby Vines 232

Glossary 237

West Virginia Trees

By A. B. BROOKS

KEY TO THE GENERA

(Based on leaves and fruit)

a.—Leaves simple.

b.—Leaves needle-shaped, awl-shaped, or scale-like, usually evergreen; fruit a cone or berry-like.

c.—Leaves in bundles of 2-many; fruit a cone. Leaves in bundles of 2-5, evergreen =Pinus, p. 13.=

Leaves in clusters of 8-many on short spur-like branchlets, deciduous in autumn =Larix, p. 13.=

c.—Leaves not in bundles, solitary.

d.—Leaves alternate or whorled.

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