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" Beetle-hunters tell us that old Polyporei, and similar fungi of a corky or woody nature, are always sought after for certain species which they seek in vain elsewhere,[W] and those who possess herbaria know how destructive certain minute members of the animal kingdom are to their choicest specimens, against whose depredations even poison is sometimes unavailing.
Plants corky or woody, Gills anastomosing.
The pileus is between corky and woody, smooth, somewhat flattened, at first zoneless; white when young, then reddish-brown, white around the margin; at first even, then concentrically sulcate, pale within.
Some species are very large, some are small, some fleshy, and some are corky or woody.
The stem is hard and corky within, externally spongy-tomentose; colored[Pg 441] like the pileus, the central substance often transversely zoned, especially near the top.
How to tell them from each other: In the sycamore, the bark is mottled; in the white birch, it is dull white; in the beech, it is smooth and gray; in the hackberry, it is covered with numerous corky warts; in the blue beech, the trunk of the tree is fluted, as in Fig.
Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) Distinguishing characters: The tree may be told readily from other trees by the corky tubercles on the bark of the lower portion of the trunk.
Distinguishing characters: The persistent, spiny, long-stemmed round fruit; the corky growths on the twigs, the characteristic star-shaped leaves (Fig.
Note the corky ridges along the twig.
Comparisons: The cork elm is another tree that possesses corky ridges along its twigs, but this differs from the sweet gum in wanting the spiny fruit and its other distinctive traits.
The capsule is two-celled, smooth, and of a golden yellow, and the seeds are each covered with a thick corky skin.
The trunk is covered with a very thick corky bark; the wood is white, finely grained, and durable.
The cone is buckler-shaped, and it divides, when ripe, into eight or ten corky scales, each of which has four nuts attached; the cone being partially divided into cells, which may be seen, when the scales have been removed to show the interior.
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