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 .. . y, with a saponaceous pulp,usually only one of the three carpels fertile. The /S. saponaria of the West Indies, to which this species isallied, has long been in use by the natives for the purposes ofsoap. The fleshy covering of the seed, and also the root insome measure, makes an excellent lather in water, b
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 .. . y, with a saponaceous pulp,usually only one of the three carpels fertile. The /S. saponaria of the West Indies, to which this species isallied, has long been in use by the natives for the purposes ofsoap. The fleshy covering of the seed, and also the root insome measure, makes an excellent lather in water, but, if usedtoo frequently and of too great strength, is apt to burn and in-jure the texture of the cloth. The round black seeds were at one time largely imported intoEngland, for the purj^ose of making buttons for waistcoats,being durable and not apt to break. At present they are used in the West Indies for various orna-mental purposes, being tipped with silver or gold, and strung forbeads, crosses, &c. It is also used as a medicine, and, poundedand thrown into water, has the singular property of intoxicatingand killing the fish which may be there. The wood is soft, and not very durable. PLATE LXV. Iicji)rcscnts d braiivli of tlic natural size. a. A panidc of Jiowers. PI. LX^ Melicorca Paiiiculata. Round fruiied hona -berrr Knejiur FanicaJc . MELICOCC A;=^ (Browne, linn.) (Knepier, Vr.) Natural Order, Sapindace^. Llnnman ClasHificatlon, Octan- DRIA, MONOGYNIA. Flowers polygamous.— Calyx 4 to 5-parted, persistent. Petals, thesame number, with the divisions of the calyx inserted into a hypo-gynous disk. Stamens often eight. Ovary superior, mostly one, the stigma capitate or 3-lobed. Drupe coated, mostly1-colled, 1-seeded. Seed attached to the axis of the cell. Trees or shrubs, mostly of Tropical America, with equally-pinnated,alternate leaves, usually in two to three pairs, and entire. Theflowers small, disposed in axillary or terminal spikes or panicles; thef
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