. The North America sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia [microform] : considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce, to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. RED BAY. Laurus Caroliniensis. L. folits perc7inantibus, ovato-acuminatis, subtus sitbylaucis, baccis cccruleis. This species of Laurel is first observed in the lower part of Virginia, and it continues to be seen uninterruptedly throughout the ^ laritime distr
. The North America sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia [microform] : considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce, to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. RED BAY. Laurus Caroliniensis. L. folits perc7inantibus, ovato-acuminatis, subtus sitbylaucis, baccis cccruleis. This species of Laurel is first observed in the lower part of Virginia, and it continues to be seen uninterruptedly throughout the ^ laritime districts of the Carolinas and of Georgia, in the two Floridas, and in Lower Louisiana. It is confined, as well as several other trees which I have described, precisely within the limits which I have assig)aed to the pine-barrens. This tree is known only by the name oi' > ^ ^ay- It is profusely multiplied, and, with the Sweet \i, . '' Red- flowering Maple, Water Oak, &c., it fills the branch-swamps which intersect the pine-barrens. It is seen on tlie skirts of the great swamps which border the rivers, and around the ponds covered with the Laiinis aW/tv<//,<*, (Pohd-l)ush,) that are met with in the barrens. A cool and himiid soil appears to be essential to its growth, for it is never found in dry or sandy lands. It is also remnrked that the farther south it grows the more vigorous and beautiful is its vegetation: thus, in the south- ern part of Georgia and in the Floridus, it is often sixty or seventy feet high and from fifteen to twenty inches in diameter; dimensions which it more rarely attains in the Carolinas. Perhaps, also, as the Carolinas have been longer inhabited and are more fully peopled, the largest stocks have been felled for certain uses to which they are found perfectly ada[)t('d. When; tiie IXvd Bay arrives at a lofty statiuv, it ran-ly ex- hibits a reg\ilar form: its trunk is generally crooked, and divided into several thick limbs at eight, ten, o
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