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  • On shaded slopes of valleys and river terraces, scrubby aspen (Populus spp.), willow (Salix spp.), cottonwood (Populus sp.), and box-elder (Acer negundo) occur.

    Northern short grasslands 2008

  • Hugh wanted to know what the box-elder tree said, and what the Ford garage said, and what the big cloud said, and she told him, with a feeling that she was not in the least making up stories, but discovering the souls of things.

    Main Street 2004

  • Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton - woods.

    Main Street 2004

  • By seven o'clock we had moored the boats a few yards up its mouth and we made a comfortable camp in a box-elder grove.

    A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

  • There were box-elder and cottonwood trees here and there, and cedars up the cliffs wherever they could find a footing.

    A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

  • "Yup, I guess that's how it happened," answered a voice close beside her, and she jumped almost out of her shoes in her surprise, for unconsciously she had spoken her thoughts aloud, and a merry-faced urchin, sprawled in the shade of a low-limbed box-elder, had answered her.

    The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown

  • It was a square of about thirty acres, set out in ash and box-elder and cottonwoods, with a thick mulberry hedge on the south side.

    X. Book Two: Enid 1922

  • Hugh wanted to know what the box-elder tree said, and what the Ford garage said, and what the big cloud said, and she told him, with a feeling that she was not in the least making up stories, but discovering the souls of things.

    Main Street 1920

  • Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cottonwoods.

    Main Street 1920

  • Its margin and islands are wooded with large long leafed (or bitter) cottonwood, box-elder, willows, etc., and, judging from the quantity of wood cut on its banks, and other appearances, it once must have contained a great number of beaver, the major part of which (as I have been informed) were trapped by men in the service of the North West company some four or five years ago.

    Narrative of William H. Ashley 1918

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