The sylva americana; or, A description of the forest trees indigenous to the United States, practically and botanically considered . at the summit. The flowers putforth in the month of June, and are borne by long peduncles,are pendulous, subdivided at the extremity, and garnished with along, narrow, floral leaf. The seeds, which are ripe about thefirst of October, are round and of a gray color. The trunk is covered with a very thin bark; the cellularintegument, separated from the epidermis and macerated inwater, is formed into ropes ; in Europe they are used for wellcords. The wood of this tre
The sylva americana; or, A description of the forest trees indigenous to the United States, practically and botanically considered . at the summit. The flowers putforth in the month of June, and are borne by long peduncles,are pendulous, subdivided at the extremity, and garnished with along, narrow, floral leaf. The seeds, which are ripe about thefirst of October, are round and of a gray color. The trunk is covered with a very thin bark; the cellularintegument, separated from the epidermis and macerated inwater, is formed into ropes ; in Europe they are used for wellcords. The wood of this tree is vi^hite and tender: in theNorthern States, where the tulip tree does not grow, it is usedfor the panels of carriage bodies, and the seats of chairs; but asit is softer and splits more easily, it is less proper for theseobjects. On the Ohio the images affixed to the prow of vesselsare made of this wood instead of the white pine. The flowersof this tree are probably endowed with the same antispasmodicand cephalic properties which are ascribed to those of theEuropean species. DENDROLOGY. 307 Downy Lime Tree. Tilia PLATE I. A leaf. Fig. 2 The fruit. The Downy Lime Treebelongs to the southern partsof the United States and theFloridas. It grows of pref-erence on the borders ofrivers and large marshes,where the soil is cool andfertile, but not exposed toinundation. It is little mul-tiplied, and consequently, isnot taken notice of by theinhabitants ; for this reason,and because it is the onlyspecies of its kind in themaritime parts of the Caro-linas and of Georgia, it hasreceived no specific denom-ination, and is simply called Lime Tree, to which we have addedthe epithet Downy, derived from a character of its foliage notobserved in the preceding species. This tree is 40 or 50 feet high with a proportionate its general appearance it resembles the American lime tree,which grows farther north, more than the white lime tree, whichbelongs to the Middl
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