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 .. . JVIacliira AiiraLLiiacaL. Osage Orange. Jiou dArc Svndazr-s litJu OSAGE ORANGE, OR YELLOW WOOD. 143 The branches are flexuous and round, clothed with a smoothgray bark. The leaves are alternate, upon long fooi^stalks, andare usually oval and acuminated; on the bearing branches theyare, however, often conside
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 .. . JVIacliira AiiraLLiiacaL. Osage Orange. Jiou dArc Svndazr-s litJu OSAGE ORANGE, OR YELLOW WOOD. 143 The branches are flexuous and round, clothed with a smoothgray bark. The leaves are alternate, upon long fooi^stalks, andare usually oval and acuminated; on the bearing branches theyare, however, often considerably larger, and heart-shaped at thebase, very entire, with the point mucronated and a little pun-gent; the upper surface is smooth and shining, but the petioleand nerves on the under side of the leaf are somewhat hirsutelypubescent. The petiole is often an inch or more long; the leafitself two to four inches, and one and a half to three incheswide. The staminifercms plant appears uniformly weaker, moredelicate, and smaller-leaved, than the fertile plant. The flowersin it are axillary, in pedunculated small umbels, each umbelcontaining about fifteen to twenty flowers, consisting merely ofa small 4-cleft calyx, with oval hairy segments, and four sta-mens, on lengthened and exserted
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