. The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia [microform] : considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce : to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees : illustrated by 156 coloured engravings. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. corks upon llie spot by a simpld operation perforiiu'ii by a single person with iniplumonts of which the price docs not exceed two or three dolhus. pLATi: Mir. .? brunch with huvn (aid J) nit i>f titc nulurul nizc.
. The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia [microform] : considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce : to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees : illustrated by 156 coloured engravings. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. corks upon llie spot by a simpld operation perforiiu'ii by a single person with iniplumonts of which the price docs not exceed two or three dolhus. pLATi: Mir. .? brunch with huvn (aid J) nit i>f titc nulurul nizc. WILLOW OAK. QiiKiicirs Q, foUia !!iicrirl.!(incrof(tth, infrs^rrrhnis, s;Iahrh, npicc sefacrn-ficiDiiiiiafIs, junioriljus cUnlalis lobiili^vc ; aipitln sculellutd ; gUinde subrolund(\,ininiind. \ \V This species, which is rcmarlcable for its fulia2;e, makes its first appear- ance in tlie environs of Philadel[)hia ; but it is more common and of a lar- ger size in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, wliere the milder tempera- ture of the winter is evidently iavonrable to its growth. It is seen, how- ever, only in the maritime parts of those States, and is a stranger to the inland districts, whore the surface is mountainous and the climate inoie severe. From the analogy of soil and clim-i*(', ii is ]irobahly found in Lower liOuisiana, but I have never observed it beyond the Alleghanies in Kentucky and Tennessee. The Willow Oak commonly grows in cool moist places, and with the Tupelo, the Small IMagnolia, the Red-dowering >biple, the Red 15ay and the Water Oak, it borders the swamps in the low^ ;nrt of the Southern States. In these situations it attains its greatest e.\^)ansion, which is 50 or GO feet in height, and from 20 to 24 inches in diameter. The trunk, even at an advanced age, is covered with a smooth bark, remarkable for the thickness of its cellular tissue. The leaves are 2 or 3 inches long, of a light green, smooth, narrow, entire, and similar to those of
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