The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts, and Their Introduction Into Commerce: To which is Added a Description of the Most Useful of the European Trees ...

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J. Dobson, Printed by William Amphlett, New Harmony, Ind., 1849 - Trees

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... racemes , with articulated pedicels ; the fruit resembling grapes . SEA - SIDE GRAPE . ( RAISINIER DE MER ) . COCCOLOBA UVIFERA , foliis cordato - subrotundis nitulis . LINN . WILLD . Sp . pl . vol . 3 , p . 457. LAMARCK . Illust . tab ...
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... old trunks the bark is rough and full of clefts . The leaves are dilated , round and obtuse , with a narrow sinus at the base , and upon very short petioles . The racemes of greenish - white SMALL - LEAVED SEA - SIDE GRAPE . 25 polygamous.
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... Raceme of the fertile plant 3 to 4 inches long , the flowers solitary , with the lobes of the calyx whitish . In the infertile plant the racemes are longer , and the flowers smaller , and clus- tered along the stalk of the raceme by 3 ...
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... racemes axillary or ter- minal and paniculate . Flowers pedicellate , provided with bractes ; the corolla white or reddish . * An ancient name for the Arbutus Unedo . MENZIES'S STRAWBERRY TREE . ARBUTUS MENZIESII , arborea , foliis 41 ...
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... racemes , they are nearly globular and yellowish- white ; these are at length succeeded , about August , by fine showy clusters of orange - yellow berries , which are rather dry , and coated with a thin layer of granular tuber- cular ...

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1-seeded 20 feet ABIES according acute acutis aments Amer anthers appears Arbor ARDISIA attains the height axillary BALSAM FIR bark beneath berries Blodgett border bractes branches branchlets brown BUMELIA calyx Cembra clusters colour cone CORDIA CORNUS corolla corymbs COTINUS diameter Douglas Drupe durable East Florida elongatis erect feet high feet in height Flor floribus foliis foliolis forests Fort Vancouver fruit genus glabris grows HOOKER imbricated inches long Key West Larch leaflets leaves length LINN Linnæan Classification LOUDON margin Natural Order nearly oblong obtuse Oregon Ornus oval ovate ovatis panicles PAPAW petals petioles pinnate PINUS PISONIA plant PLATE pubescent PURSH racemes remarks resembling resin Rocky Mountains round scales scarcely seed short smooth species specimens spreading squamis Stamens stigma strobilis subtus summit TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE TAXODIUM terminal thick timber TORREYA TAXIFOLIA tree tropical trunk VITÆ White Pine WILLD wood yellow ZANTHOXYLUM

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TitleThe North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts, and Their Introduction Into Commerce: To which is Added a Description of the Most Useful of the European Trees ...
Volume 6 of The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts, and Their Introduction Into Commerce: To which is Added a Description of the Most Useful of the European Trees, François André Michaux
AuthorFrançois André Michaux
Translated byAugustus Lucas Hillhouse
PublisherJ. Dobson, Printed by William Amphlett, New Harmony, Ind., 1849
Original fromthe New York Public Library
DigitizedJul 17, 2009
  
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