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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1921)
Jaw-Breaking Proper Names Found A Characteristic of Campus Trees by Botanist Tn your “holloing” tours about tin campus, have you noticed the trees that grow beside the paths? If you onlj know where to look for them, you couh see a maiden hair tree, a California Big tree, a redwood, a curious knob pine and a tassel tree, sometimes called qui nine bush because a substance like qui nine is made from its bark. You may have known that the mas terly big evrgreens, wit hall the little green tips, in the main quadrangle of the eamuus are Douglas firs; and in or der that you should not miss less notice able but equally interesting trees and dopnprptpmepntp pofppand themanwnw department of botany, spent part of two days telling an Emerald reporter about them. (Miss Sanborn uttered not a word about the dew that the toes of her fresh white canvas shoes soaked up the first day. and the reporter has not filed an nfficial complaint about the coat of sunburn received on the back of her neck the second day.) There are 12 varieties of gymnosperms (some call them conifers and others say evergreens—take your choiee) on the campus. The variety found in greatest numbers is Pseudotsuga douglasii (Douglas fir) which grows in the main iliiacl and along the walk leading from Dcady to Twelfth street. Second as to numbers comes the incense cedar, of which a good type stands out by itself at your left as you leave the steps of Dcady, going toward Villard, along “Hello lone.” There are a number of these cedars on the campus which may be easily identified if you keep this type tree in mind. Then, if you will walk along “Hello lane,” and right-face when you come to the path leading to the architecture building, you will notice that there is nr evergreen on each side of the path. The one on the right is tsuga, commonly called mountain hemlock. It is the only hemlock on the campus. On the left is chamaeeyparis lawsoniana. Of course you can’t pronounce that, but you can call it by its common name, Port Orford cedar; and you can always recognize it by its peculiar little bluish, octagonal shaped cones, which are found in groups on the under side of Its small branches A number of these cedars are found on the grounds. . Thou, if you stop oft the path to your left, right there you will discover sequoia washingtonia, commonly known as Cali fornia big tree. Another, larger and more perfect specimen of this tree will be found in the group of evergreen on the right of the Twelfth street walk. Rut to continue your walk around Villard—if you go around the seal and start (but don’t go far) down the rose path toward the Springfield car stopping place, and turn about and look toward the Anchorage, you will see a graceful ever green with light green fo)'?."". standing among some of your old friends, Douglas fir and incense cedar. That light green tree is the only larch (larix occidentalis) on the campus. It is one of the gymnos perm family that sheds its leaves in the fall. Just now, it is putting out its new cones, which are an attractive reddish hue. Now, if you will about face, and come back to the rose path, you will see on the left of it a rather “scrubby” looking tree, branching close to the ground. That is a Pacific red cedar (thuya plicata). It resembles the Port Orford cedar some what. but its cones are long and spread ing, while those of the Port Orford are round. If you will take the left branch of the path there and start (but dpn’t go far) toward a lilac bush that you’ll see, you will find ginko bilobata. Gingko doesn t look like an evergreen at all, in fact gingko is called the maiden hair tree be cause its leaves resemble the maiden hair fern. The leaves are a particularly fresh bright green now. because they are new, as this tree is another leaf-shedding gymnosperm. Kingko is very ancient in the evolution of plants, says Miss San born. and its resemblance to the fern leads to the belief that the g.vmnosy.erins sprang from fern ancestry. S‘ie says she has never seen cones on the gingko. which is probably due to the fact that -t has what is called a swimming sperm, carried by water instead of by wind as most cones are fertilized. Gingko’s leaves and swimming sperm are its strik ing characteristics. If you will stand by gingko and look down toward the Springfield car stop ping place, you’ll see a number of large trees that you’ll easily recognize as pines. They are the yellow pine tpinus ponderosa). You will notice the cones on these trees are a bluish red in the sunlight. These pines differ quite defi nitely from other j)ines which you will will find later in your walk. Now if you will walk along until you come to the vicinity of the tree that has had all of its many trunks cut off foul or five feet from the ground, and wil walk a rod or two to you right (there are no placards to warn you off the grass there), you’ll notice a slender evergreen with peculiar spined looking branches, and noticeably long fibres in the bark of the trunk. That is cryptomeria japanica, or Japanese cedar. Its old cones, which are still hanging, are very attractive. l>ue west of jopaniea. there stands a distinguished looking tree with a very j large trunk. It is specimen number two i of sequoia wasliingtouia, a much finer : type of the “big tree'’ than the one 011 the opposite corner of Villard. If you like to compare the other member of the sequoia family with this, you will go due north of wasliingtouia. past a com pact little bluish green tree (abies, or white fir) and will find a tree with red dish bark, and brownish tints in its fol iage. That is sequoia sempirvirens. It gets its common name, red wood, from the reddish cast of its bark and foliage. Now. if you care to meet another of the pine family, you may come back to sequoia waashingtonia and go a yard or two due west of it, where you will see a large thick-foliaged tree with silverv tores to its needles, which are three or four inches long. That is the silver pine, sometimes called western white pine, but properly and botanically name 1 pirus monticola. There is another of these pines near the southwest corner of OREGON DAILY E 1 resident Campbell's house. 1 inus nltcnnatn is the third of the pine lnmi'y that grows on the campus, and is the most peeulinr'one. There is only one tree of piutis attenuata on the grounds, aiul you will find it on the east side of the President's house. It is commonly called ki.ob pine because of the very unusual way in which it bears its cones Instead cf growing on the tips of the branches as all cones are reasonably ex pected to do, these cones grow on the main branches of the tree. If you stand under the tree, and look up. you will see the old cones thickly located like a lot of huge bugs on the large branches. The trunk of this pine divides near the ground unlike any other member of the ever green family. There is one other gymosperm on the campus: it grows on the President’s lawn, also, .just, a little to the east, of the administration building. The tree has a decidedly blue tone to its stiff bristly needles. This is a spruce, piceac. Now. that’s all the reporter learned the first day out—except that there are two other gymnosperms found in the S P U R - A New Narrow Arrow COLLAR Vacation Days You will soon be enjoying vacation days, so why not add to the pleasures by having a summer suit, tailored to your measure. THE HOUSE OF STYLE, PRICE and QUALITY SCROGGS BROS. TAILORS (Up Stairs) 760 Will. St. Obak Cigar Store The Home of the Students Who Use the Pool and Billiard Tables 8th and Willamette W. R. (Obak) Wallace STEVENSONS The Kodak Shop Headquarters For Campus Pictures Kodak Finishing, Kodaks and Albums See our big STUNT BOOKS 10th and Willamette Sts. Phone 535. Fresh Strawberries in Short Thicks SUNDEAS PARFAITS FRAPPAS and Ice Cream Sodas DeLuxe at 'late, of which flit' campus lias no speci men—Juniper, whit h bears bine berries, and yew, which bears red berries. WRIGLEY5 ■ /Sae ■ ' We eat too fast-we cat too much. 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Gome in and try our strawberries—they come in sev eral different ways; shortcake, sundeas and the like. <Ikc VARSITY Clark R. Hawley, Prop. Why Is It? That more student organizations on the campus buy there meat from us than anyone else. There must be a reason and if you will ask them they will tell you. We are giving the very best meat that we can buy and selling the same at the lowest possible price that is consistent. Our service is a factor that receives f avor able comment at ah times and places. Come in and let us show you some of the reasons why you ought to buy your meat at BRODERS BROS. 80 West 8th Street MEAT MARKET Phone 40.