. The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux [microform] : and containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United States : illustrated by 122 fine plates. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. 80 SOFT-LEAVED at the summit and axils of the branches in panicles or short racemes which grow often 3 together, the divisions of
. The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux [microform] : and containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United States : illustrated by 122 fine plates. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. 80 SOFT-LEAVED at the summit and axils of the branches in panicles or short racemes which grow often 3 together, the divisions of the panicle, as in the branches, are opposite, the peduncles and the calyx are whitish and tomentose. The fruit resembles in form, and is nearly the size of an almond. Scarcely any tree is more widely disseminated throughout the tropics than the Avicennia, it is commonly associated with the Mangle or Mangrove, affecting the saline borders of the ocean in Xndia, America, nearly all the groupes of the South Sea islands, and extends on our part of the con- tinent from Texas to Florida, and New Orleans, near to the estuary of the Mississippi, where it may often be seen brought in the oyster and fishing boats and called usually the Mangle. The roots spread out in all directions in arches over the surface of the soil, and send out from the mire in which they grow, numerous erect naked shoots resembling asparagus in appearance, I have not been able to ascertain its size on our coast, but I believe it attains there a much smnllcr elevation than in India. In the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences, are fine specimens from Surinam, collected by Dr. Herring. In these nearly all the leaves are acute, and are furnished with conspicuous, rather long petioles; yet, as on the same specimens some bluntish leaves may also be seen, it probably merely con- stitutes a variety which may be termed A. tomentosa fi.* lonoifaiia. The plant of India seems truly identic with our own. Forstcr disc
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