The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . ; the border five-cleft, spreading. Stamens fifteen to thirty. Ovary glabrous, withtwo collateral pendulous ovules. Dnq^e globose, fleshy, destituteof bloom; the nut hard and bony, mostly globose and even. Trees or shrubs chiefly of the temperate parts of Europe andNorth America, forming sev
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . ; the border five-cleft, spreading. Stamens fifteen to thirty. Ovary glabrous, withtwo collateral pendulous ovules. Dnq^e globose, fleshy, destituteof bloom; the nut hard and bony, mostly globose and even. Trees or shrubs chiefly of the temperate parts of Europe andNorth America, forming several natural sections. Leaves serrated,deciduous or sempervirent. § I. Floiuers corymbose or clustered. Leaves deciduous. TrueCherries. SOFT-LEAVED CHERRY. Cerasus mollis. Foliis oblongis ovaiisve plerisque obiusis serrulatis suhtusiomentoso-pubescentibus, corymbis racemosis 5 ad Q-fioris tornentosis,laciiiiis calydnis obtusis reflexis tubo pubescejite brevioribus, drupa ovoidea. (~!erasus mollis.—Douglas, in Hooker, Flor. Bor. Am., vol. i. p. and Gray, Flor. N. Amer., i. p. 410. This species of Cherry, growing twelve to twenty-five feet high, is confined to the Oregon Territory, and particularly to the borders of the Oregon River and its tributaries as far1G4 C eras us luoEis Sofh leaded/Oterry. (enfieray/etiiSeg nwUeg. PI .XLYR.
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