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 .. . and always hoarywith pubescence. The stem branches from the base, only risingfour or five inches above the surface of the earth, but withmany diffuse, tough, woody branches, which spread out into acircle of a foot or more. The root-stock is woody and thick;the branches full of cicatrices, pubescent, but brow
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 .. . and always hoarywith pubescence. The stem branches from the base, only risingfour or five inches above the surface of the earth, but withmany diffuse, tough, woody branches, which spread out into acircle of a foot or more. The root-stock is woody and thick;the branches full of cicatrices, pubescent, but brown beneath,thickly covered with small leaves, which in some plants areelliptic-ovate, in others oblong-lanceolate, all very entire, nearlysessile, and acute, from half an inch to an inch long, aboutthree lines wide; above always gray with pubescence, butbeneath rather whitely villous; some of the lowest smallleaves are smooth on the upper surface. There are no stipulesin any of my specimens. The male flowers I have not fertile catkins are short and somewhat clustered, notcylindric, few-flowered, the capsules oblong-lanceolate, andshort, villous, with appressed hairs, not densely lanuginous,as in S. arenaria, ternrnated by a short, slender style and fourshort stisrmas. Salix; argophyila. SihrT-l^avtxi Willow: Sanle a feullie^ aryefi/eiv. SILVER-LEAVED WILLOW. Salix aegophylla. Foliis lineari-suhlanceolatis acutis sessilibus integerrimis utrinquc argenteo-sericeis, siipulis obsoleiis, ameniis seroiinis dian-dris, capsulis villosis lanceolatis. In our devious progress to the West, we at length approachedone of the branches of the Oregon, the river Boisee, towardits junction with the Shoshonee; its banks were not fringedwith a belt of forest, but so stripped of every character of analluvial nature, that when we suddenly approached it thereappeared no break in the plain, and the clear and rapid floodshot through a deep, perpendicular chasm of columnar basalticrocks. W
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