. 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. 782 Wild DiUy. Fig. 713. — Tough Buckthorn. entire or toothed, rounded or notched at the apex, corolla slightly longer than the calyx, its lobes to 2 mm. long, broad and blimt, its appendages ovate or ovate-lanceolate, often irregu- larly toothed, shorter than the corolla-lobes and the ovate stami- nodes; stamens shorter than the corolla. The fruit drops off soon after ripening in the autimm; it is oblong or oblong-ov
. 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. 782 Wild DiUy. Fig. 713. — Tough Buckthorn. entire or toothed, rounded or notched at the apex, corolla slightly longer than the calyx, its lobes to 2 mm. long, broad and blimt, its appendages ovate or ovate-lanceolate, often irregu- larly toothed, shorter than the corolla-lobes and the ovate stami- nodes; stamens shorter than the corolla. The fruit drops off soon after ripening in the autimm; it is oblong or oblong-ovoid, 10 to 14 mm. long, black, often tipped with the slander, persistent style. Its wood is hard, dense and pale brown, with a specific gravity of about V. WILD DILLY GENUS MIMUSOPS LINN^US Species Mimusops parvifolia (Nuttall) Radlkofer Achras Zapotilla parvifolia Nuttall. Mimusops Sieheri Chapman, not A. de Candolle [|LSO called Wild sapodilla, this evergreen tree of peninsular Florida, the Keys, and the Bahamas, becomes 10 meters tall, with a trunk diameter of 4 dm., though usually much smaller and often shrubby. The trunk is usually very short and widely branched, the branches stout, crooked, forming a round-headed tree. The bark is 6 mm. thick, with rounded ridges, which break into small plates of a gray or brown color. The twigs are thick, brownish hairy at first, soon becoming smooth, light brown and finally gray. The buds are ovoid, sharp-pointed and rusty hairy. The leaves are clustered at the end of the twigs, persist- ent, thick and leathery, oblong, 5 to 10 cm. long, notched at the apex, roimded or taper- ing at the base, somewhat revolute on the margin, slightly hairy when imfolding, soon becoming smooth, bright green and shining with impressed midrib above, paler, with prominent midrib, beneath; the leaf-stalk is Fig. 714. — Wild Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabi
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