. The North America sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia [microform] : 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. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. CATALPA. Didynaniia angiosperina. LiNN. Bignonioe. Juss. BiGXONiA CATALPA. B. foliis simpUcibus, ternis, cordatis; paniculd hxis. simd; fioribus diandris, intus maculis purpurcis et lutcis aspersis; cap- said graclli, longd, tereti. Catalpa syringajfoha. oiMS.
. The North America sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia [microform] : 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. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. CATALPA. Didynaniia angiosperina. LiNN. Bignonioe. Juss. BiGXONiA CATALPA. B. foliis simpUcibus, ternis, cordatis; paniculd hxis. simd; fioribus diandris, intus maculis purpurcis et lutcis aspersis; cap- said graclli, longd, tereti. Catalpa syringajfoha. oiMS. In the Atlantic States, the Catalpa begins to be found in the forests on the banks of the river Savannah, near Augusta in Georgia, and, west of the Alleglianies, on those of the Cumber- land, between the 35th and 36th degrees of latitude. Farther south it is more common, and abounds near the borders of all the rivers which empty into the Mississippi, or which water the province of West Florida. I have been assured that it is par- ticularly abundant on the Escambia or Conechu, which empties at Pensacola. It is remarkable that the Catalpa should not exist in the lower part of the Carolinas and of Georgia, and in East Florida, which lie so near tlie country of its natural growth, and where stocks that have been planted for ornament about the houses shoot with extraordinary vigor. In these southern regions it frequently exceeds fifty feet in height, with a diameter from eighteen to twenty-four inches. It is easily recognised by its bark, which is of a silver-gray and but slightly furrowed, by its ample leaves, and by its wide- spreading summit, disproportioned in size to the diameter of its trunk. It diflers from other trees also by the fewness of its branches. The leaves are heart-shaped, petiolated, often six or seven inches in width, glabrous above and downy beneath, particu- larly on the principal ribs; they are late in venturing out in the spring, and are among the first to s
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