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 .. . eciduous, the divisions unequal. Petals ten, with the filaments naked or partly and stigma one. Capsule substipitate, 2 or 3 to 5-celled, withtwo to five salient angles. Seeds solitary, affixed to the axis, pen-dulous; albumen cartilaginous, cotyledons rather thick. Trees of
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 .. . eciduous, the divisions unequal. Petals ten, with the filaments naked or partly and stigma one. Capsule substipitate, 2 or 3 to 5-celled, withtwo to five salient angles. Seeds solitary, affixed to the axis, pen-dulous; albumen cartilaginous, cotyledons rather thick. Trees of moderate elevation, with extremely hard and heavy wood ;the branchlets trichotomous, leaves opposite, abruptly pinnated, theleafiets entire, peduncles axillar and terminal, few and mostly clustered,1-fiowcrod, the flowers blue. SMALL-LEAVED LIGNUM-VIT^. ( SANCTUM. Foliis 5-7-jiffjis, foliolts oraUbus obtusis mucronu-bifis; pcfiolis ramuUsque subpubescentibus.—Decand., Prod., vol. i. Guaiacum sanctum. FoliolismuWjagis obtusis.—Linn. Commel., Ilort.,vol. i. p. 171, t. 88. Lam., Encyc, vol. ii. p. G15. Jdsniiiniiii nil(j() Aincricanum. S. Evomjmo affinis occidcntalis,alatisrusci- * Dcrivcil from ;i IMexican iiauic altered by the Spaniards iuto Gaaijaran. Ou a la turn HiUK-tmii. SMALL-LEAVED L I GN U M-V I T ^E. 87 foliis, nucifera^ cortice ad genicula ftmgoso.—Pluk., Almag., p. 139, t. 94, fig. Vitce ex Brasilia.—Blackwall, tab. 350, figs. 3, G. *PARViFOLiuM. Foliis sublrijugis foUolis obliquis, capsulis iKntaptcrls. This species forms a spreading tree, resembling an Oak, witha thick, short trunk; and, according to Dr. Blodgett, (who foundit to be abundant in Key West,) its fine blue flowers, in April,make a very beautiful appearance. It is a native likewise ofvarious tropical parts of South America, the island of , St. Juan of Porto Rico, and Mexico. According toPlumier, the wood of this species is as hard and as heavy
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