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 .. . compressed drupe; the pulp scanty, very acid and \^/^ compressed, bony, 1-celled. Seed solitary, suspended from afuniculus arising from the base of the cell. These are low and much-branched, submaritime evergreen trees ofFplier California. Leaves simple, alternate, thick and ji
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 .. . compressed drupe; the pulp scanty, very acid and \^/^ compressed, bony, 1-celled. Seed solitary, suspended from afuniculus arising from the base of the cell. These are low and much-branched, submaritime evergreen trees ofFplier California. Leaves simple, alternate, thick and jiolygamous, sessile, in terminal contracted panicles. ENTIRE-LEAVED STYPIIONIA. Stviiionia iNTEUKiFOLiA. Fvliis ocalibns intcjris utrlnque obtusis hrcvi- jK liiihilis. Stmiioma inldinfoVta. Leaves oval, very obtuse at either end, entire,oil pciloKs.—XuTT., in TuKU. atuUJuAY, Flora X. Am., vol. J2U. Inun ^Tlifiii, In be uslriin/i nl. In allusiuii to its (| StrvphoiTiia Inie^ Lemed Sbjphonxa. Sfrvplwmf « FruUhs KiiHems. ENTIRE-LEAVED STYTIIONIA. 75 Tuis is an unsightly tree, with a stem about the thickness ofa mans arm, branching in a wide and stragghng manner, form-ing impervious thickets along the margins of clifls and steepbanks near the sea, around St. Barbara and St. Diego, in UpperCalifornia. These thickets, filled exclusively with this plant andthe following, at a distance resemble our scrub-oak: they areequally indicative of a barren soil, and are almost impervious,though not extensive. The older stems are smooth and gray, though the 3oung leavesand branches are minutely pubescent. The branches are leaves are an inch or more long, three times the length ofthe petioles, and rather prominently veined beneath. The flowersare disposed in terminal, few-flowered, sessile clusters, upon theshort branches of the panicle. The sepals and petals are rose-red. Drupes the size of a pea, hirsute, dark red. The fruit is
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