. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. White Stopper 725 all seasons, in small short axillary or lateral racemes, on rusty-hairy pedicels. The 4 calyx-lobes are blunt; the corolla is 3 or 4 mm. across, its 4 white petals glandular-punctate and fringed on the margin. The fruit is oval or subglobose, somewhat oblique, S to 8 mm. long, black, and aromatic. The wood is very hard, strong, close-grained, and dark reddish brown; its specific gravity is , and it i
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. White Stopper 725 all seasons, in small short axillary or lateral racemes, on rusty-hairy pedicels. The 4 calyx-lobes are blunt; the corolla is 3 or 4 mm. across, its 4 white petals glandular-punctate and fringed on the margin. The fruit is oval or subglobose, somewhat oblique, S to 8 mm. long, black, and aromatic. The wood is very hard, strong, close-grained, and dark reddish brown; its specific gravity is , and it is used for fuel on the Florida Keys. 2. WHITE STOPPER — Eugenia axiUaris (Swartz) Willdenow Myrtus axillaris Swartz. Eugenia monticola Grisebach, not Willdenow This small, slow-growing tree or shrub occurs in sandy or rocky soil in penin- sular Florida and the Keys, and is widely distributed in the West Indian islands, north to Bermuda, reaching a maximum height of 8 meters, with a trunk diame- ter of 3 dm. The bark is about 3 mm. thick, irregularly and shallowly fissured and broken into small thin plates of a light broYiTi color. The twigs are rather stout, round and stiff, gray or reddish gray. The leaves are thick and leathery, elliptic-ovate or nearly elliptic, broadest just below the middle, 3 to 7 cm. long, narrowed at the apex into a bluntish tip, tapering at the base to the broad petiole, entire and revolute on the margin, dark green with a broad impressed midrib above, paler, minutely dotted and with elevated veins beneath. The flowers, opening in summer ^d autumn, are in short axillary clusters, on stout smooth or hairy pedicels. The calyx is punctate, its lobes rounded; corolla 3 to 4 mm. across, its petals larger than the calyx-lobes, the many white stamens conspicuous. The fruit is a de- pressed globular, glandular-pimctate berry, 10 to 12 mm. in diameter and crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes, its flesh sweet, pleasant to the taste and aromatic; it usually
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