. 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. Southern Buckthorn 779 nodes ovate, 2 mm. long, blunt and sometimes unequal. The fruit is usually oval, 7 to 8 mm. long. 4. SOUTHERN BUCKTHORN — Bumelia lycioides (Linnasus) Gaertner Sideroxylon lycioides Linnaeus A slightly armed small tree or shrub of damp soil along streams or swamps from Virginia and Illinois to Florida and Texas, becoming 9 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of dm. It is also called Ironwood, Buc
. 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. Southern Buckthorn 779 nodes ovate, 2 mm. long, blunt and sometimes unequal. The fruit is usually oval, 7 to 8 mm. long. 4. SOUTHERN BUCKTHORN — Bumelia lycioides (Linnasus) Gaertner Sideroxylon lycioides Linnaeus A slightly armed small tree or shrub of damp soil along streams or swamps from Virginia and Illinois to Florida and Texas, becoming 9 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of dm. It is also called Ironwood, Buckthorn, Carolina buckthorn, Southern Bumelia, and Chittimwood. The trunk is usually short, its branches rather stout. The bark is thin, smooth or slightly broken into scales of a light red- dish brown or grayish color. The twigs are smooth, round, somewhat shining, reddish brown to gray; the winter buds are very small and blunt. The abundant leaves are tardily deciduous, thick, almost leathery, ob- long elliptic or rarely oblanceolate, 4 to 12 cm. long, bluntish to taper-pointed, rarely rounded at the apex, tapering at the base, pale green and prominently netted-veined on both sur- faces; the leaf-stalks are slender, shghtly grooved and from 5 to 12 mm. long. The flowers appear from June to August, in dense fascicles, on slender pedicels 7 to 10 mm. long; their calyx is smooth, its lobes oval or orbicular-ovate, 2 mm. long and blunt; co- rolla-lobes longer than broad, and blunt; ap- pendages lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, sharp-pointed; staminodes broadly ovate, 2 to mm. long, minutely toothed, often keeled; ovary hairy at the base. The fruit is an, oval berry, i to 2 cm. long, ripening in autumn. The wood is hard, weak, close-grained, light brown or yellow; its specific . gravity is about Texan Buckthorn, Bumelia texana Buckley, of the plains and mountains of southwestern Texas, is said to become a slightly thorny tree several meters tall. The twigs are stout, rou
Size: 1409px × 1772px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyorkhholtandco
