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 .. . C eras us luoEis Sofh leaded/Oterry. (enfieray/etiiSeg nwUeg. PI . JToI/y leaved Cherry. Cexasus Ilicifolia Cer/j-ier afiuill&i del&u^v ? HOLLY-LEAVED CHERRY. 165 as its sources. We met with it in thickets on hills, near theWahlamet, flowering about the month of May. The youngbranches are dark gray and
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 .. . C eras us luoEis Sofh leaded/Oterry. (enfieray/etiiSeg nwUeg. PI . JToI/y leaved Cherry. Cexasus Ilicifolia Cer/j-ier afiuill&i del&u^v ? HOLLY-LEAVED CHERRY. 165 as its sources. We met with it in thickets on hills, near theWahlamet, flowering about the month of May. The youngbranches are dark gray and somewhat downy. The leaves aresoftly downy beneath, on short petioles, oblong, or oblong-ovate,mostly obtuse, sometimes acute, minutely serrulate, two to twoand a half inches long by about an inch in width; stipulessmall and deeply ciliate, as well as the bractes. Flowers smalland white, the petals rounded and concave. Segments of thecalyx ovate, short, and obtuse. Stigma clavate, petioles andcalyx tomentose. Fruit ovate, astringent, and unpleasant. PLATE XLYI. A branch of the natural size, with young fruit, a. The flower. Red or NoRTHERisr Cherry. (Cerasus Pennsylvanica, Tor. andGray. G. horealis, Mich, and Mich., Sylva, p. 152.) According toMacmin, of West Chester, this tree in the Beech woods of Tiogacounty, Pennsylvania, attains the heigh
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