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 .. . e gray and even; theleaves are very smooth on both sides, but covered with innumer-able minute dots on the upper surface. They are three to fourinches long, one and a half to two inches wide, with a peduncleabout one and a half inches long. They have a few distantpennated nerves inosculating toward the margi
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 .. . e gray and even; theleaves are very smooth on both sides, but covered with innumer-able minute dots on the upper surface. They are three to fourinches long, one and a half to two inches wide, with a peduncleabout one and a half inches long. They have a few distantpennated nerves inosculating toward the margin of the leaf,with innumerable intermediate slender reticulations of vessels;they are generally of an ovate form, rounded or almost cordateat the base, with a short and blunt acumination; from theiraxils arise one or two peduncles about three-quarters of an inchlong, each terminated by a bifid involucel, improperly called acalyx. The figs themselves are nearly globose, but sensiblywider at the summit, about the magnitude of small cherries,greenish-yellow and purple at the summit, (as they appear in awithered state,) with a few purplish pale spots. Of this species there appears to be a distinct variety, if not aspecies, which I shall for the present call ^ acuta; the leaf is Slurrt leaifd Fuf-tret. Ficus ^Drevifolia Fiqurier dfeuillcf cfiirtes. SHORT-LEAVED F I G T R E E. 153 elliptic, shortly acuminate, acute at base, and faintly nervedbeneath. It also becomes a large tree, producing a fig about thesize of a cherry, which is yellow when ripe. PLATE XLI. A branch of the natural size. a. The fruit. SHORT-LEAVED FIG TREE. Ficus BREViFOLiA. FolOs cordato-ovatis integerrimis, ohtusis abbrematisbrevi jyetiolatis glabiis, venis irnmersis, receptaculis globosis depressis um-bilicatis solitariis brevi pedu7iculatis, involucellis bijidis. This is also a species of arborescent Fig, indigenous to KeyWest, in East Florida, but by no means common, and, accord-ing to Dr. Blodgett, it
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