. 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. 400 Lancewood 3. SWAMP RED BAY — Persea pubescens (Pursh) Sargent Laurus carolinensis pubescens Pursh This tree closely resembles the Red bay in general appearance and bark, but is usually smaller and not known to become more than 14 meters high nor to form a trunk more than dm. in thickness; it is distributed from southeastern Virginia to Florida and Texas, growing in swamps or wet soil, near the coast, and grows als
. 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. 400 Lancewood 3. SWAMP RED BAY — Persea pubescens (Pursh) Sargent Laurus carolinensis pubescens Pursh This tree closely resembles the Red bay in general appearance and bark, but is usually smaller and not known to become more than 14 meters high nor to form a trunk more than dm. in thickness; it is distributed from southeastern Virginia to Florida and Texas, growing in swamps or wet soil, near the coast, and grows also on the Great Bahama island. Its bark is usually thinner than that of the Red bay, and the young brown twigs are densely hairy. The leaves are elliptic, oval or lanceolate, 5 to 20 cm. long, pointed at both ends, sometimes long-pointed at the apex, rather bright green, smooth and shin- ing on the upper surface, pubescent, at least on the veins, beneath; the leaf-stalks are i to 2 cm. long. The stalks of the axillary flower-clusters are $ to 8 cm. long, densely velvety hairy, as well as the branches of the inflorescence, the short flower-stalks and the calyx; the inner sepals are 5 or 6 mm. long and about twice as long as the outer ones, the stamens about as long, with hairy filaments. The oval or nearly globular dark blue fruit is cm. in diameter or less. The soft orange-brown wood has a specific gravity of about Fig. 353. — Swamp Red Bay. II. LANCEWOOD GENUS OCOTEA AUBLET Species Ocotea Catesbyana (Michaux) Sargent Laurus Catesbyana Michaux COTEA includes some 200 kinds of evergreen trees and shrubs, with entire-margined leaves, mostly natives of tropical America, a few in the Old World tropics, having its type species in Ocotea guianensis Aublet, of Guiana; the generic name was that used for this tree by the Indians of Guiana. The Lancewood inhabits southern Florida and the Bahama islands, and is abundant in hanmiocks or coppices, becoming at least 12 meters h
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