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 .. . er there is a 3-leaved calyx and nocorolla. Style very short. Stigma 6 or 7-cleft. Fruit, a drupe con-taining a six to seven or more celled nut; each cell with one seed;the cells indehiscent. A large poisonous tree of Tropical America, with alternate, entireleaves; the male flowers clustered in interrupted,
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 .. . er there is a 3-leaved calyx and nocorolla. Style very short. Stigma 6 or 7-cleft. Fruit, a drupe con-taining a six to seven or more celled nut; each cell with one seed;the cells indehiscent. A large poisonous tree of Tropical America, with alternate, entireleaves; the male flowers clustered in interrupted, terminal fi^uit solitary and sessile, resembling an apple. MANCHINEEL. IIiPPOMANE MANCiNELLA. FolUs ovatis serratis.—Linn., Willd., Lamarck, Illust., t. 793. Jacq., Am., edit, pict, t. 288. Aublet, Guian., vol. ii. p. Americana, laurocerasi folio, venenata. Mancincllo arbor scu Mas- sinilia dicta.—Commel., Hort., vol. i. p. 131, t. affinis arbor juUfcra, lactescens, venenata, pyrifolia, Mancanillo Ilispanis dicta.—Sloane, Jamaic. Ilist., vol. ii. p. 3, t. 159. * From iTtizoz, a Jiorse, and , madness. Tlic name, however, was appliedby the Greeks to a very different plant which grew in Arcadia, said to renderhorses PI LX. Man clime el M A N C H IN E E L. 203 Mancanilla jpyrifade.—Plumier, Gen., p. 49, t. 3. MSS. vol. vi. t. 109. Catesbys Carol., vol. ii. p. 95, t. Americana Mancinello dicta, fructu pomi venenato, nucleis sc]:>tems et pluribus, in ossiculo muricato, ioiidem loculis disperiito, inclusis.—Pm- KEN, Almag., p. 44. Phytog., tab. 142, fig. arboreum laciescens, ramulis ternatis; peiiolis glanduld noiatis;jioribus spicaiis, mixtis.—Browne, Jam., p. 351. The Manchineel Tree attains a great size on the sea-coast invarious parts of the West India Islands and the neighboringcontinent. It has also been found growling very common atKey West, in low places, where it attains the height o
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