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 .. . the summit; tlie border at first undivided and ovate while inflower, afterward 1 to 5-cleft. Petals, five. Stamens very numerous,distinct. Style filiform ; stigma capitate. The ovary with from fiveto twenty cells, some of them abortive, each cell subdivided by theinterposition of a placenta resembling a diss
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 .. . the summit; tlie border at first undivided and ovate while inflower, afterward 1 to 5-cleft. Petals, five. Stamens very numerous,distinct. Style filiform ; stigma capitate. The ovary with from fiveto twenty cells, some of them abortive, each cell subdivided by theinterposition of a placenta resembling a dissepiment. Ovules nume-rous, horizontal. Fruit a many-seeded berry, coated with theadhering tube of the calyx and crowned by its persisting seeds scattered through the pulp in the ripe berry, having abony or hard shell. The embryo curved in a half-circle round theprotruded base of the testa. Cotyledons minute; the radicle ratherlong. Trees or shrubs chiefly indigenous to the intertropical regions ofAmerica, with opposite, entire, impunctate, feather-nerved axillary, 1 to 3-flowered, each flower with a pair of flowers white. * One of the Greek names for the Pomegranate. Gvava is a corruption ofthe American aboriginal name of Gnnijahn. 114 PLXX^,. Tlorida Crizara Pisidiuia bunfoliiuiL Oi/rarier- de^7xi Floruie FLORIDA GUAVA. PsiDiUM BUXIFOLIUM. Glabrum, ramulis terciibus, folils ijarvulis coriaceiscimeaio-obovatis obtusis subsessilibus margine revolutiSy peduncuUs solitariisbrevissimis unijioris, fructu pyriformi. For a knowledge of this interesting tree or shrub we areindebted to the late indefatigable Dr. Baldwin, who met with itin some part of East Florida near the river St. Johns. Toshow how very unlike this species is to all the others known, itwas hastily marked by Mr. Schweinitz, in his herbarium, (ofwhich the specimen forms a part,) Qmrmts virem and at thefirst hasty glance some resemblance may be traced with theLive Oak in the leaf an
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