. 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. BAY CEDAR FAMILY SURIANACE^ Lindley Genus Smiana Linnaeus Species Suriana maritima Linnaeus HE Bay cedar, Suriana maritima Linnaeus, a typical maritime plant of sea-beaches and coastal rocks, occurs in southern Florida, through- out the West Indies, in northern South America and on islands of the Pacific Ocean. It is named in honor of Jos. Donat Surian, a French artist, and is a monotype, no other species of Suriana being
. 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. BAY CEDAR FAMILY SURIANACE^ Lindley Genus Smiana Linnaeus Species Suriana maritima Linnaeus HE Bay cedar, Suriana maritima Linnaeus, a typical maritime plant of sea-beaches and coastal rocks, occurs in southern Florida, through- out the West Indies, in northern South America and on islands of the Pacific Ocean. It is named in honor of Jos. Donat Surian, a French artist, and is a monotype, no other species of Suriana being known, and it has no close relatives. While usually a mere shrub, 2 meters high or less, it occasionally forms a tree up to 8 meters high, with a single trunk 3 dm. in diameter as observed by J. K. Small on Elhott's Key, Florida. The bark is brown, rough and ir- regularly fissured, rather thin, separat- ing finally in thin plates. Its rather thick but flaccid leaves are linear- spatulate, to 4 cm. long, finely appressed-silky, entire-margined, al- ternate, densely set on the twigs, their veins very inconspicuous. The perfect and regular flowers are in small clus- ters almost concealed by the upper leaves; theje are 5 ovate pointed se- pals 6 to 8 mm. long, 5 imbricated clawed yellow petals about as long as the sepals, 10 stamens, those opposite the sepals shorter than those opposite the petals, and 5 hairy pistils, each with a one-celled ovary containing 2 ascending ovules, a filiform style and a knob-Hke stigma. The pistils ripen into hairy achene-like fruits about mm. long; the embryo of the seed is horseshoe-shaped. The wood is too meager to be of use for structural purposes, but is very hard and dense and makes good fuel; it is reddish brown in color and very Fig. 544. — Bay Cedar. 589. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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