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 .. . nnular disk, with six to eight crenula-tious. Fertile Flowers, with the calyx 3-parted. Petals six. Ovary ovate, 3-celled. Style short, with a capitate,obtuse, 3-lobed stigma. Drupe oblong, with three nuts; the barksuccLlent and trivalvular; two of the nuts abortive; the fertileone fleshy, bear
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 .. . nnular disk, with six to eight crenula-tious. Fertile Flowers, with the calyx 3-parted. Petals six. Ovary ovate, 3-celled. Style short, with a capitate,obtuse, 3-lobed stigma. Drupe oblong, with three nuts; the barksuccLlent and trivalvular; two of the nuts abortive; the fertileone fleshy, bearing two ovules, and perfecting only one seed. Seedpendulous, without albumen; cotyledons foliaceous, with wrinkledfolds, the radicle straight and superior. Tropical American balsam-bearing trees, with unequally-pinnatedand sometimes simple articulated leaves, with small flowers in axil-lary racemose panicles. Named after Joachim Burser, Professor of Botany at Sara, inNaples. WEST INDIAN BIRCH TREE. Bursera oummifera. Folds deciduis sapius impari-pinnatis, foUolisoralis aciitis nuinfjranaceis, racemis axillarlbus.—Decand., Prod., vol. 7S. Jacquin, Am., p. 94, t. 65. Swartz, Obs., p. 130. Tkrkiuntiius major hetula: cortke, fructu trianyulari.—Sloane, Jam.,t. V,)[). Il LXXIX. JlcH J/td/afcJirri/i //•,<- JiiiiHfrii (riutiuiil\M*a (it/iitiri (/. /iiwriaite WEST INDIAN BIRCH TREE. 65 Terebinthus foliis cordato-ovatis innnatis, corilcc Icvci rufcscoite, Jloribusmasculls spicatls.—Browne, .Tuni., p. 345. The West Indian or Jamaica Birch becomes a large, lofty,and graceful tree, with an upright, smooth, round trunk of threeto four feet in diameter, having an even, thin, membranaceousbrown or grayish bark, peeling oft in shreds like the EuropeanBirch; but in other respects it bears not the slightest relationto that tree. It produces a fine, spreading, much-branchedsummit, full of elegant, feathery leaves, almost like those of theAilanthus; and, though an exclusive native
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