. 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. 594 Mahogany oughly naturalized in the southern States from South Carolina to Texas, and it withstands the winter as far north as Chesapeake bay and Little Rock, Arkansas. It attains a height of 15 to 20 meters, with a trunk sometimes 2 meters thick, and flowers in the spring in the southern States. The bark is furrowed, the twigs smooth. The deciduous leaves are stalked and twice compound, the numerous leaflets ovate to
. 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. 594 Mahogany oughly naturalized in the southern States from South Carolina to Texas, and it withstands the winter as far north as Chesapeake bay and Little Rock, Arkansas. It attains a height of 15 to 20 meters, with a trunk sometimes 2 meters thick, and flowers in the spring in the southern States. The bark is furrowed, the twigs smooth. The deciduous leaves are stalked and twice compound, the numerous leaflets ovate to elliptic, thin, pointed, cut-toothed or lobed, 3 to 7 cm. long, and bright green; the stalked panicles of flowers are 3 dm. long or less, the flower-stalks 4 to 10 mm. long; the sepals are elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, pointed, about 2 mm. long; the purplish petals are Fig. 547. - China Tree. narrowly oblong, blunt, about i cm. long. The drupes are yellow, nearly globular to oblong, to 2 cm. in diameter, smooth, enclosing a hard brown pit. The pits are bored and strung hke beads into necklaces, whence the name Bead tree, sometimes apphed to this species. The tree grows rapidly, and is much planted for shade and ornament in the southern States and in the West Indies. It has a broad round top and rather dense deciduous II. MAHOGANY GENUS SWIETENIA JACQUIN Species Swietenia Mahagoni Jacquin HIS important tropical tree enters our area in peninsular Florida and the Keys, where it was formerly more abimdant than now, as the large trees have been cut down for their valuable timber. It occurs in the Bahamas, and the other West Indies, but most abundantly on the continent from Mexico to Peru; its maximum height is 25 meters, with a trunk diameter of 4 m. It is sometimes called Madeira and Madeira redwood. The trunk is straight and sometimes very large, with immense buttresses at its base. The branches are large and spreading, forming a dense round head. The bark is about
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