The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . separated by interruptions inthe pod. The seeds oval and compressed, with a lateral hylum;embryo curved; cotyledons thick and elliptic; the radicle in-flected.—West India trees, with deciduous, unequally-pinnatedleaves, produced after the development of the flowers. JAMAICA DOGWOOD. PisciDiA Erythrina. FoUoU
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . separated by interruptions inthe pod. The seeds oval and compressed, with a lateral hylum;embryo curved; cotyledons thick and elliptic; the radicle in-flected.—West India trees, with deciduous, unequally-pinnatedleaves, produced after the development of the flowers. JAMAICA DOGWOOD. PisciDiA Erythrina. FoUoUs ovutis, leguminis stipite calyce 7mdio lon- gioix, alls Erythrina.—Linn., Sp. pi. Jacq., Amer., p. 206. Swartz, Obs., p. 277. Macfadyen, Flora of Jamaica, vol. i. p. foliis jpimiatis ovaiis, racemis termimillhus, sillquis qiiadri- alatis.—Browne, Jamaica, p. arbor polyj^hylla nan spinosa, fraxird folio, siliqva alis foliaccis exstaniihus rotoe. molcmiinarice fiiwiatilis acuta.—Sloane, Jam., vol. ii. p. 32, tab. 176, figs. 4, 5. Lamarck, Illust., tab. 605, fig. , siliqids alatis.—Plumier, Icon., 229, tab. 233, fig. 2. * The name from jnscis, a fish, in allusion to its employment as a PL LIL. Jamaica. JJti If wood. Piscidia erythriiia. Boisivrant de la Jamaique. JAMAICA DOGWOOD. 181 The Jamaica Dogwood is a native of the Antilles as well asof the neighboring continent of America, having been observedby Humboldt and Bonpland in the mountainous places in NewSpain, between Acapulco and Mazatlan, and we have now torecord it as a native of Key West, in East Florida, where it wascollected by Dr. Blodgett. It becomes a tree of about twenty totwenty-five feet in height, not remarkable for the elegance of itsform, the branches being straggling, but yet beautiful in theseason of flowering, which is about April, when, with blossomssimilar to our favorite White Locust, {Rohinia pseudo-acacia,)the who
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