. 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. 7i6 Mangrove margined, dark green, smooth and shining above, paler with prominent midrib beneath; the elongated stipules are deciduous. The axillary' peduncles are i to 4 cm. long, bearing 2 or 3 pediceled flowers; the calyx is sharply 4-lobed and leathery; petals yellowish white, hnear or nearly so, long hairy; stamens 8, in 2 sets, with short filaments; ovary partly inferior, conic, 2-celled, with 2 awl-shaped styles wi
. 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. 7i6 Mangrove margined, dark green, smooth and shining above, paler with prominent midrib beneath; the elongated stipules are deciduous. The axillary' peduncles are i to 4 cm. long, bearing 2 or 3 pediceled flowers; the calyx is sharply 4-lobed and leathery; petals yellowish white, hnear or nearly so, long hairy; stamens 8, in 2 sets, with short filaments; ovary partly inferior, conic, 2-celled, with 2 awl-shaped styles with stigmatic tips. The berry is conic, leathery, 2 to cm. long, rough, brown, subtended by the persistent, reflexed calyx-lobes; the seed, usually sohtary, germi- nates in the fruit while this is still attached to the tree, its radicle forcing its way out and growing downward, suspended from the fruit, often until it becomes to 3 dm. long before falling off and taking root in the mud, soon forming a new plant; these with the arching aerial roots that develop from the trunk and branches. Fig. 656. — Mangrove. of the older plants form a network, which not onlf prevents the trees from being washed away by the waves, but affords a place of lodgment for all sorts of debris, the constant accumulation of which in time raises the ground above the surface of the water, thus increasing the land and hterally making "islands ; The wood is hard, close-grained, strong, dark red-brown and satiny; its specific gravity about It is used for fuel, and for wharfs and docks, not being bored by the marine worm-like moUusk Teredo. The astringent bark is used for tan- ning leather. The name is Greek, in reference to the aerial roots borne on its branches. There are 2 other species known from the coasts of tropical Africa, the East Indies, and AustraUa, their habits being very similar to the American tree, which is the type Please note that these images are extr
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