. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Texan Madrona 759 entire or sometimes wavy toothed on the margin, dark green and shining above, much paler, with prominent venation beneath; the leaf-stalk is stout, 12 to 25 mm. long. The flowers appear from March to June, according to latitude, in terminal panicles, 12 to 15 cm. across; the pedicels are slender, minutely hairy, and bracteo- late; the calyx is 5-parted, white and dryish, 3 mm. long; the corolla is globu-
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Texan Madrona 759 entire or sometimes wavy toothed on the margin, dark green and shining above, much paler, with prominent venation beneath; the leaf-stalk is stout, 12 to 25 mm. long. The flowers appear from March to June, according to latitude, in terminal panicles, 12 to 15 cm. across; the pedicels are slender, minutely hairy, and bracteo- late; the calyx is 5-parted, white and dryish, 3 mm. long; the corolla is globu- lar, white and 5-lobed; ovary smooth, upon an obscurely lo-lobed disk. The fruit, ripening in September, is a 5-celled, berry-like drupe, subglobose, obovoid or oval 12 mm. long, bright orange; the stone is s-parted, leathery, each part con- taining several seeds which are small, an- gular, brown, and hairy. The wood is hard, strong, close- grained, light reddish brown; its specific. Fig. 693. — Madrona. gravity about ; it is used to a slight extent for furniture and largely burned for charcoal, for use in the manufacture of gunpowder. The astringent bark has been used in tanning and in medicine. It is the handsomest and largest member of the Heath family, at least in North America. 2. TEXAN MADRONA —Arbutus texana Bucyey Arbutus xalapensis S. Watson, not Humboldt, Bonpland and Kunth A small evergreen tree or shrub, entering southwestern Texas from adjacent Mexico, where it is quite abundant; it grows on hills, attaining a maximum height of 6 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm. It is also called Mexican madrona, Madrona tree, Man- zanita, and Laurel. The trunk is very short and much branched, the branches more or less crooked and spreading. The bark is about 6 mm. thick, furrowed, dark brown and separates into Fig. 694. —Texan Madrona. plates; on younger stems it is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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