The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into (14780027314)

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Title: The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce. To which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees ..
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855. cn Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859. 1n Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Philadelphia, Rice, Rutter & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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et high, andto produce white, hard, and close-grained wood. The branches in our plant are cinereous, and much cicatrizedwith the vestiges of fallen leaves. The leaves themselvesalmost resemble those of some species of Ash; they are alternate,on common petioles about two inches long; the leaflets, two orthree, rarely four pair, are elliptic or subovate, opposite, obtuse,narrowed at the base, and slightly oblique, with shallow, smallcrenatures on the margin, at length quite smooth, and verydistinctly marked (when held against the light) with pellucidpunctures or translucid aromatic glands; the petioles, youngbuds, and the stalks of the panicles, as well as the midrib of theyomig leaves, are thinly clad with close-pressed stellated hairs.Ilic panicles of the male flowers are large, and contain verymany crowded, small, yellowish-white flowers. The calyx iswvy small and live-toothed; the petals much larger, oblong-ovate,I!!! to live, with the same number of stamens. The panicle of Il LXAW.
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X^Tit)u)Kyliim Jloridi^niUTn Florida Satin Wood. (/(rra/rtr </rsF/oruUf ,#.^ FLORIDA SATIN-WOOD. 85 female flowers is smaller than in the other sex, the calyx andcorolla similar. The germs are mostly two, sometimes three,each terminated with a small style and a large unequal-sidedcapitate stigma. The capsules are brownish yellow and stipitate,covered with turgid glands, and each containing one shining-black seed. This species appears to be allied to Z. acumi-natum; but the leaves are not acuminate, and the flowers havefour and mostly five stamens. From the rude figure of Sloane,t. 168, f. 4, we should almost be inclined to think it intendedfor our plant; but the leaves are entire and often emarginate,and hence the name of Z. emarginatum given by Swartz. PLATE LXXXV. A branch of the natural size. a. The male flower enlarged, h. The femaleflower, c. The ripe capsule. LIGNUM-VIT^ TREE. (Gayac, Fr.) Natural Order, Ztgopiiylle^, (R. Brown.) Linncean Classifwa-tion, Decandria, Monogtnia.