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 (14595717849)
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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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eciduous, the divisions unequal. Petals five.Stamens ten, with the filaments naked or partly appendiculate.Style and stigma one. Capsule substipitate, 2 or 3 to 5-celled, withtwo to five salient angles. Seeds solitary, affixed to the axis, pen-dulous; albumen cartilaginous, cotyledons rather thick. Trees of moderate elevation, with extremely hard and heavy wood ;the branchlets trichotomous, leaves opposite, abruptly pinnated, theleafiets entire, peduncles axillar and terminal, few and mostly clustered,1-fiowcrod, the flowers blue. SMALL-LEAVED LIGNUM-VIT^. (JrAiAcu.M SANCTUM. Foliis 5-7-jiffjis, foliolts oraUbus obtusis mucronu-bifis; pcfiolis ramuUsque subpubescentibus.—Decand., Prod., vol. i. p.707. Guaiacum sanctum. FoliolismuWjagis obtusis.—Linn. Commel., Ilort.,vol. i. p. 171, t. 88. Lam., Encyc, vol. ii. p. G15. Jdsniiiniiii nil(j() Aincricanum. S. Evomjmo affinis occidcntalis,alatisrusci- * Dcrivcil from ;i IMexican iiauic altered by the Spaniards iuto Gaaijaran. Pl.LXXTN..
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Ou a la turn HiUK-tmii. SMALL-LEAVED L I GN U M-V I T ^E. 87 foliis, nucifera^ cortice ad genicula ftmgoso.—Pluk., Almag., p. 139, t. 94, fig. 4.Lignum- Vitce ex Brasilia.—Blackwall, tab. 350, figs. 3, 4./5 G. *PARViFOLiuM. Foliis sublrijugis foUolis obliquis, capsulis iKntaptcrls. This species forms a spreading tree, resembling an Oak, witha thick, short trunk; and, according to Dr. Blodgett, (who foundit to be abundant in Key West,) its fine blue flowers, in April,make a very beautiful appearance. It is a native likewise ofvarious tropical parts of South America, the island of St.Domingo, St. Juan of Porto Rico, and Mexico. According toPlumier, the wood of this species is as hard and as heavy asthat of the true Lignum-Vitae, but of the color of Box. YetHernandez describes the wood as blue internally, which pro-bably takes place in the older trunks, and thus again resemblingthe officinal Guaiacum. The bark of this tree is gray or yellow-ish gray, and even. The leaflets are never