. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. JH ! Gordoiiia pitbescens, THE PUBESCENT-LEAVED GORDONIA. Synonymes. Gordonia Fiibesceris, Behaarte Gordonie, Franklinia, ( De , Prodromus. I MicnAux, North American Sylva. â I PuRSH, Flora AmericjE Septentrionalis. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. ToRREY AND Gray, Flora of North America.
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. JH ! Gordoiiia pitbescens, THE PUBESCENT-LEAVED GORDONIA. Synonymes. Gordonia Fiibesceris, Behaarte Gordonie, Franklinia, ( De , Prodromus. I MicnAux, North American Sylva. â I PuRSH, Flora AmericjE Septentrionalis. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. ToRREY AND Gray, Flora of North America. Germany. Britain, France, and Anolo-America. Demalions. The word pubescena is derived from the Latin puhcaco, to become downy; and the German name has the same signification. The name Franklinia is ao called in honour of Dr. Franlclin. tann Engravings. Michanx, North American Sylva, pi. 59 ; Audubon, Birds of America, nl. ; Loudon, Arboretum Brl- nni.;um, figure 94; and the figures Specific Character , Flowers almost sessile. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, pubescent beneath, somewhat serrated, membranaceous. Petals and sepals rather silky on the outside.âDon, Mille/s Did. Description. I HE Franklinia is a decidu- al ^~[P ^ ous tree, much smaller than 3? y ^ -he preceding species, and WB&IJ^^ rareb,/- exceeds thirty feet in height, and six or eight inches in diameter. The bark of the trunk is smooth, and presents a ridged surface, somewhat like that of the Carpinus ameri- cana. The leaves are alternate, oblong, narrowed at the base, finely and sharply toothed, shining above, canescent beneath, and rather thin. The flowers are white, with yellow anthers, and are nearly three inches in diameter. They are of an agreeable odour, and appear in Carolina about the beginning of July, and a month later near Pliiladelphia. They open in suc- cession during two or three months, and mature when the tree is only three or four feet high. In the neighbourhood of London, it s
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