Identifier: northamericansyl_a05mich (find matches)
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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ery dark brown color with a resinousfracture. According to Oviedo, the Spaniards, when in want ofpen, ink, and paper, used to employ the wide leaves of theCoccoloba, writing on them with the point of a bodkin. Prom its maritime predilection, it is known in the Bahamasby the name of the MiiKjrove GmpG Tree. The fruit, disposedill long racemose clusters, is composed of pear-shaped, purpleberries, about the size of cherries; they have a refreshing,agreeal^le, subacid taste, with a thin pulp, are esteemed whole-some, and brought to the table as a dessert, for which they arein considerable demand; but if the stone be kept long in theiiioiilh it becomes very astringent to the taste. The branches are smooth and gray, but in old trunks the barkis ron-li and full of clefts. The leaves are dilated, round, andoMiisc, with a narrow sinns at the base, and upon very shortptiolcs. The racemes, of greenish-white polygamous llowers,arc .SIX to twelve inches long, articulated upon very short Il. hXXKTL
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Coccoloba pnrvifolia. Small IturfxL Sen Sidr Orapc Baisirut/- a/Jt/i/ey /l//i//i,-.-. SMALL-LEAVED SEA-SIDE GRATE. 9) peduncles, and grow by clusters, at first erect, but in fruit pen-dulous. The nut has a thin shell, half three-celled at the base,with narrow membranous dissepiments. Seed somewhat glo-bular, acute, deeply umbilicated at base, brown and irregularlystriated. There is sometimes an appearance of gummy exuda-tion on the surface of the leaves, having an astringent taste likethat of the extract. PLATE LXXXVIII. A iwig of tliC natural size. a. The male flowers, b. The flower, e. TJie raceme of fruit. SMALL-LEAVED SEA-SIDE GRAPE. CoccoLOBA *PARViFOLiA. Dioicci, foliis ohloiujo-lanceolatis ovalibt/sque, racemis erectis,floribus octandris./9 OVALIFOLIA. Foliis ovciUbus utrinque obtusis.CoccoLOBA obtusifolia?—Jacquin, Am., p. 114, t. 74. This species, according to Dr. Blodgett, who found it growingon Key West, is a dioecious tree attaining the height of fortyfeet. It appears to

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