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 .. . The tube of the corolla extends beyond thecalyx; the border is five-lobed, with obtuse, broadish segments^the stamens, five, are linear, long, and acute, situated above the 148 CORDIA MYXA. orifice of tlie corolla. The drupe is about the .size of a pea, andcontains a nut with four cells and four seeds. The s
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 .. . The tube of the corolla extends beyond thecalyx; the border is five-lobed, with obtuse, broadish segments^the stamens, five, are linear, long, and acute, situated above the 148 CORDIA MYXA. orifice of tlie corolla. The drupe is about the .size of a pea, andcontains a nut with four cells and four seeds. The style is bifid,and the stigmas capitate, flat, and emarginate. PLATE CVII. A branch of the nalaral size. a. A transverse section of the nut, showing the four seeds. The fruit of the Cordia Mijxa or Assyrian Plum, which is ofan aa-reeable taste, has been esteemed a valuable medicine in dis-orders of the chest and urinary passages, but is not now usedofficinally. The East Indians eat it macerated in salt and vine-gar as a remedy for diarrhoea. An excellent glue also is madeof the pulp, which is more viscid than that of the jujube. TheWest India species, Cordia coUococca or Clammy Cherry, has anedible fruit from which also a glue has been made, and hencealso the specific name. 1 vy\\\.. (.re i(l(Mit:»lis /,.. /In f(ii/fi TIIE Y E ^y. (If, Fr.) Natural Order, , (Richard.) Liiniaxm Classification,Dkecia, Monadelphia. TAXUS.* (TouRN. Linn.) DiCECious.—3Tale Jloicer composed of imbricated bud-scales, eoimatoat base. Siaminifcroiis column exserted, the stamens six to tburteeii,forming a capitate cluster. Anthers peltate, 5 to 8-celled, the cellsopening from beneath. The Pistillate (or fertile flower) thesame as the male, but solitary. The fruit, a nut iinhoihhd in atranslucent succulent cup. Embryo inverted, in the axis of theperisperm: cotyledons two, very short. Trees or rarely shrubs indigenous to the temperate and colderregions of both continents; leaves nar
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