Identifier: northamericansyl_a05mich (find matches)
Title: 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 forest trees ..
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855. cn Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859. 1n Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: Philadelphia, Rice, Rutter & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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, Flor. Bor. Am., vol. i. p. 155.SiDEROXYLON kncix.—Linn., Mant., p. 48. Jacquin, Collect., vol. ii. p. 252.SiDEROXYLON chrysophylloides.—Mien., Flor. Bor. Am., vol. i. p. 128.SiDEROXYLON scriccwn.—AValter, Carol., p. 100.CuRYSOPHYLLUM Carolbieiise.—Jacq., Observ., vol. iii. p. 3, t. 54. This very elegant-leaved species becomes occasionally a treetwenty to thirty feet high, with hard, tough wood, and the trunkclothed with a light-gray bark. The young branches are slender,straight, flexible, and, as in all the species of the genus inhabit-ing the United States, very difficult to break: hence the specificname of the present, (fcnax.) The leaves are much smaller thanin any of the preceding species; smooth above, beneath silky andshining, with the down usually of a pale-golden or ferruginouscolor; adding a peculiar elegance and splendor to the foliage,ncaily e(iual to that of the true ClinjsopJujUum, or Golden-Leafui the West Indies. The flowers and leaves, as usual, are both nxrn
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WOOLLY-LEAVED B U M E L I A. 105 clustered at the extremities of the projecting buds of the formerseason; but the older fertile branches do not appear to produceany thorns. The peduncles of the sessile corymbs are verylong, and, as well as the calyx, clothed with ferruginous down.According to Willdenow, the drupes are oval. Inner corolla ornectarium five-parted as the corolla, but with the divisions trifid,and the middle segment longest. This species affects dry, sandy soils, and is met with, notuncommonly, from the sea-coast of South Carolina to EastFlorida. Bosc remarks that at the approach of evening theflowers give out an agreeable odor. In the Bartram Garden,there is a tree of this species, less silky than usual, which isperfectly hardy. PLATE XCIL A branch of the natural size. a. The flower, b. The berry WOOLLY-LEAVED BUMELIA. BuMELiA LANUGINOSA, spbiosa; i^arnuUspaienlissimis, 2>i(beseentib>is ; foJtis cuneaio-lcmccolatis obiusis; svbius laimginosis ferriigineis nee seric

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