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 .. . kind, much more abundant,and in flower in the month of March, round Tallahassee, inWest Florida. The Floridian plant is scarcely a foot in height, with smooth,purplish-gray branchlets; the leaves obovate, on very shortpetioles, deeply serrate, obtuse or acute, elliptic-obovate; whenyoung, whitish pubescent;
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 .. . kind, much more abundant,and in flower in the month of March, round Tallahassee, inWest Florida. The Floridian plant is scarcely a foot in height, with smooth,purplish-gray branchlets; the leaves obovate, on very shortpetioles, deeply serrate, obtuse or acute, elliptic-obovate; whenyoung, whitish pubescent; the adult almost perfectly smoothon both surfaces; about three inches long by one inch or morewide. Stipules subulate, rather persistent. Male aments soli-tary, long, and filiform-, tomentose. The fruit I have not seen. The Charleston plant grows in sandy pine-barrens, and thenut, which is solitary, is said by Elliott to be much larger, butless abundant, than in the other native species. This plantrarely exceeds two feet in height. Its leaves are glossy above,pubescent, but not tomentose, beneath. Fertile flowers one tothree in an involucrum, only one perfected. The wood of the Chinquepin, (C. pumila,) whenever it canbe obtained large enough for posts, is much valued, as it is sup-. Ca«tanea abiifolia. GOLDEN-LEAVED CHESTNUT. 37 posed to be more durable when exposed to the weather thanany other timber except the Red Cedar.—Elliott. PLATE VI. A branch of the natural size. GOLDEN-LEAVED CHESTNUT. Castanea chrysophylla, (Dougl. Mss.) Foliis sempervireniibus lato-lanceolatis acuminatis coriaceis integerrimis glabris subtus , Flor. Bor. Am., vol. h. p. 159, According to Douglas, this is a splendid evergreen tree,varying in height from twenty to seventy feet, with leavesfour to five inches long, deep green above, and below of a richgolden yellow. These leaves are, also, (very diiferent from allthe rest of the genus) quite entire. The spikes or catkins ofthe fl
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