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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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tly identical with specimenscollected by Poiteau in St. Domingo, and which he had markedAcliras Sapota. PLATE XC. A branch of the natural size. a. The fruit, soincivhat reduced. SOUTHERN IRON-WOOD. (LArgax, Fr.) Ntitiiral Order, SapotetE, (Jussieu.) Linncean Classification,Pentandria, Monogynia. BUMELIA.* (SwARTZ.) Calyx 5-cleft, persistent. Corolla rotate, 5-parted, internally with thesame nnmber of toothed or trifid in-curved petaloid scales. Stamensfive or ten, on short filaments arising from the base of the tubeof the corolla. Ovanj superior, rounded. SUjle short, stigmasimple and obtuse. Driq^e small and round, mostly containingone seed. Shining or smooth trees, with alternate entire leaves, chieflyniitives of the tropical parts of America or the warmer parts ofthe United States. Flowers small, in close axillary round corymbsor clusters. The wood generally hard and fetid. * A name given by the Greeks to the European Ash, and arbitrarily appliedto this genus by Swartz. lUU ri xci.
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Bumtlia lycioides. S/iiooth Uatnfii BujnfUt. Supoh-Uur a /eail/ts lU-/,ui\r f Leaves Deciduous. SMOOTH-LEAVED BUMELIA, OR IRON-WOOD. BuMELiA LYCioiDES. Sjmiosa crcda; folds oldovgo-lanceolatis hasi aitcnit- aiis dcmum glabris, j)ccUmculis calycibusque glabris.BuMELiA lycioides.—PuRsn, Flor. Bor. Am., vol. i. p. 155. Elliott, Sketches, vol. i. p. 287. Persoon, Synops., vol. i. p. 237.SiDEROXYLON lycioides.—^Linn., Sp. pi. Duiiamel, Arb., vol. ii. p. 2ti0, t. 68. Mien., Flor. Bor Am., vol. i. p. 122.SiDEROXYLON l(Bvc.—Walter, Floi*. Ciirol., p. 100.Lycioides.—Linx., Ilortus Cliffort., p. 488. A SMALL and rather elegant tree, from twelve to forty feethigh, chiefly an inhabitant of low wet forests, from Carolina toFlorida, and in Louisiana, not far from the banks of the Mis-sissippi; but it is never met with in Canada, as stated by Will-denow in the Species Plantarum. It was first introducedinto France from the Mississippi, by the French Canadians,under the name of the Milk-wood o

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