. bra, Lix>-Eus, Species Plantarum. MicHACx, North American Sylva. LouDox, Arboretum Britannicum. France. Germany. Italy. Britain and Anglo-America. Murier rouge,Rother Maulbeerbaum,Moro rosso, Red Mulberry-tree, Virginian Mulberry-tree, Derivations. The specific name rubra \a deriveii from the Latin ruber, red; havin? reference to the colour of the fruit oithis species. The other names have the samte si^niticalion as the botanical one. except Virginian Mulberry, which is so calledbecause this tree was originally found in great a
. bra, Lix>-Eus, Species Plantarum. MicHACx, North American Sylva. LouDox, Arboretum Britannicum. France. Germany. Italy. Britain and Anglo-America. Murier rouge,Rother Maulbeerbaum,Moro rosso, Red Mulberry-tree, Virginian Mulberry-tree, Derivations. The specific name rubra \a deriveii from the Latin ruber, red; havin? reference to the colour of the fruit oithis species. The other names have the samte si^niticalion as the botanical one. except Virginian Mulberry, which is so calledbecause this tree was originally found in great abundance in the colony of Virginia. Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. U6; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, vii., pi. 227; and the figure.^below. Specific Characters. Sexes polygamous, or dioecious. Spikes of female flowers cylindrical. Catkins ofmale flowers of the length of those of the Belula alba. Leaves heart-shaped, ovate, acuminate, 3-Iobed,or palmate; serrated with equal teeth, rough, somewhat villous ; under surface very tomentose. Description. I HE Morns rubra, when growing in its native forests, among other§g^^^§ trees, sometimes attainsa height of sixty or seventy feet, with a trunk twofeet in diameter; but, in open situations, itsstature is low, and the thickness of the stem pro-portionably increased. The bark of the trunk ofold trees is of a grayish colour, and is morefurrowed than that of the oak. The leaves,which are often nine or ten inches in length,and three-fourths as broad as they are long, aresometimes entire, and at others divided into twoor three lobes, rounded, cordiform, denticulated,of a dark glossy-green colour, with a thicktexture, and a rough, uneven surface. Thesexes are usually separate, though they aresometimes found on the same trees, which, it iseven stated, vary in their sexes every year. The male flowers, which put forthin Pennsylvania in May, form pendulous, cylindrical aments. about an inch inlength; but those of the
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