Betula nigra [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24569)
Date: 1969Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 38 x 31 cm.
Through a Magnifying Glass (3.24609)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of lichens, flowers, buds, leaves, twigs, and seeds of various plants, created to accompany "Through A Magnifying Glass" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes descriptive text next to each plant image.
Plants depicted in three sections, from left to right, top to bottom:
Section 1: There are lichens in the spruce plot,
- Pixie cups -- Cladonia chlorophaea
- British soldiers -- Cladonia cristatella
- Awl lichen -- Cladonia coniocraea
- Vernal Witch hazel -- Hamamelis vernalis
- A magnolia bud wears deep velvet
- The persistent leaves of bayberry are copper and rose underneath, set with amber globules
- Butternut buds wear camels' faces
- Birch seeds and the scales of their cones play several variations on the same theme, including European white, gray, cherry, and river
- Queen Anne's lace has design in its "bird-nest" seed heads
- Spore capsules of mosses show many patterns. This one is Funaria hygrometrica, with a seta that twists and untwists with changing humidity
- A buckeye bud may reveal a flower cluster and several leaves
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Original identifying text has detached and is mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: River Birch (3.31799)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a River Birch tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of blossoms, seeds, and descriptive text.
Header: RIVER BIRCH
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: no thorns; catkins
- tree: peeling bark; ragged
- blossoms and seeds
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: River Birch 2 (3.31903)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a River Birch tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 05 No. 04 (3.34569)
Date: December 21 1969 – March 20 1970Type: Serial
Description:
- The Morton Arboretum: planning for its Second Half-Century (49-53)
- River Birch, Betula nigra: Birch Family (Betulaceae) (54-55)
- The River and the Watershed (56-64)
- Climatological Summary (64)
Extent: 16 pages
Betula nigra (birch) in winter (3.37756)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (birch) in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Betula nigra (River Birch), bark, mature (3.64636)
Date: February 5 2012Creator: Lobdell, Matt
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), bark, mature
Betula nigra (River Birch), bark, mature (3.64637)
Date: October 12 2013Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), bark, mature
Betula nigra (River Birch), bark, mature (3.64638)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), bark, mature
Betula nigra (River Birch), bark, twig (3.64639)
Date: October 12 2013Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), bark, twig
Betula nigra (River Birch), bud, lateral (3.64640)
Date: October 12 2013Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), bud, lateral
Betula nigra (River Birch), bud, lateral (3.64641)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), bud, lateral
Betula nigra (River Birch), bud, terminal (3.64642)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), bud, terminal
Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, lower surface (3.64643)
Date: October 12 2013Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, lower surface
Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, lower surface (3.64644)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, lower surface
Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, upper surface (3.64645)
Date: October 12 2013Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, upper surface
Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, upper surface (3.64646)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, upper surface
Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, upper surface (3.64647)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (River Birch), leaf, upper surface
Betula nigra L. (river birch), habit (3.71572)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (river birch), tall tree with green to the right of a pond reflecting the blue sky, surrounded by green grass.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), branches (3.71573)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (river birch), detail of branches with green leaves, pond below, green grass in center and sky above.
Betula nigra (river birch), bark (3.71574)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (river birch), grayish brown bark in detail on trunk and large branch, green leaves on the edges of photo.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), habit (3.71575)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), tree with green leaves in foreground of photo, surrounded by grass, pond behind, blue sky in upper half of photo.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), habit (3.71576)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (river birch), green tree in foreground, path and park bench, body of water behind it with grass and trees. Blue sky above.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), leaves (3.71577)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (river birch), several green triangular, serrated leaves in detail on a gray twig against grass.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), leaf (3.71578)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra (river birch), green leaf in detail, triangular with serrated edges. Green background with other leaves.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), bark (3.71579)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), grayish brown bark on trunk in detail. Green background with path across photo.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), trunk (3.71580)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), grayish brown multiple trunks in detail against green grass.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), leaves (3.71581)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), green leaves in detail, triangular with serrated edges on a gray twig against grass background.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), leaves (3.71582)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), several green leaves, triangular with serrated edges, on a gray twig in detail. Grass in background.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), habit (3.71583)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), three trees in center-right of photo, green grass, white sky.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), branches (3.71584)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Franklin, Jeff
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), branches in detail against snow. Tree trunks and path at top of photo.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), trunks (3.71585)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Franklin, Jeff
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), trunks in detail of one tree in snow. Grayish brown bark.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), habit (3.71586)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Franklin, Jeff
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), bare trees in a group in snow. bare trees in background, white sky.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), trunks (3.71588)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), three trunks of one tree, grayish brown peeling bark. Snow with cast shadow in background.