Crossword-Solution: ALNUS 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Clotzsch[57] crossed _Pinus sylvestris_ and _nigricans, Quercus robur_ and _pedunculata, Alnus glutinosa_ and _incana, Ulmus campestris_ and _ effusa_; and the cross-fertilised seeds, as well as seeds of the pure parent-trees, were all sown at the same time and in the same place.

These trees or bushes were chiefly black alder (_Alnus incuna_), high-bush cranberries (_Viburnum opulus_), dogwood, willows, as they proceeded further, there was ground of a more solid nature, with cedar, poplar, swamp oak, and soft maple, silver birch, and wild cherries.

Mirbel says that the _Alnus glutinosa laciniata_ is found wild in Normandy and in the forests of Montmorency near Paris.

Among them were birch, (_betula_,) the narrow-leaved poplar, (_populus angustifolia_,) several kinds of willow, (_solix_,) hawthorn, (_cratægus_,) alder, (_alnus viridis_,) and _cerasus_, with an oak allied to _quercus alba_, but very distinct from that or any other species in the United States.

Hitherto the woods had been dry, or rather so, but on turning to the east, we came into damp woods presenting many tropical features, along which we continued descending gradually for some time: at the commencement in this, Callicarpa arborea, a weeping Beech, Dipsacus verbesina, and the Alnus, of Thumathaya occurred, Arbutoideus, Hydrangea, Urtica heterophylla, Neuropeltoid aromatica.