. Oha americana,THE AMERICAN OLIVE-TREE. Synonymes. LiNN-scs, Mantissa. MicHACx, North American Sylva. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. France. Germany. Italy. Britain. United States. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, ii., fig. 1034; and the figures Olea americana, Olivier dAmerique,Amerikanischer Oehlbaum,Olivo americano,American Olive-tree,American Olive-tree, Devil-wood, Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, Specific Characters. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate. Bractes all persistent, connate, ovate. Racemes sub-compound, na
. Oha americana,THE AMERICAN OLIVE-TREE. Synonymes. LiNN-scs, Mantissa. MicHACx, North American Sylva. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. France. Germany. Italy. Britain. United States. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, ii., fig. 1034; and the figures Olea americana, Olivier dAmerique,Amerikanischer Oehlbaum,Olivo americano,American Olive-tree,American Olive-tree, Devil-wood, Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, Specific Characters. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate. Bractes all persistent, connate, ovate. Racemes sub-compound, narrow.—Loudon, Enc. of Description. |:HE Olea americana is a* large evergreen shrub orlow tree, sometimes grow-W^ ing to a height of thirtyor thirty-five feet, with a trunk ten or twelveinches in diameter; but usually it does not attainone half of these dimensions. The bark which cov-ers the trunk is smooth, and of a grayish leaves are four or five inches long, opposite,entire, smooth, and brilliant on the upper surfaces,and of an agreeable light-green. The fertile andbarren flowers grow on separate trees. They arevery small, strongly scented, of a pale-yellow col-our, and axillary. They put forth at St, Marys,in Georgia, by the last of March, and a month laterin Virginia, The fruit, which is round, is about thesize of a small grape, of a purple colour, approach-ing to blue, and contains a hard stone, thinly coatedwith pulp. It ripens in October, and remains attached to the branches during apart of the winter, forming an agreeable contrast with the light-green leaves. Geography, <^c. The Olea
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