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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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ltate. Flowers commonly polygamous, with the fertile ovarysurrounded by a short thick nectary. Ca.josule fleshy, coriaceous, 5to 12-valved, opening at the apex; placentfe triangular, united intoa central column, each one attached to the introflected valvules.Seeds terete; cotyledons separable. )*arasitical trees of Tropical America, with opposite coriaceous entireleaves without stipules. YELLOW-FLOWERED BALSAM TREE. Clusia flava. Floribiis jiolygamis, calyce polyj^hyllo, corolla tetrapctalafiava, siaminibus numerosis hrevibus, stigmatlbus circitcr 12, foliis oboratisobtusis aUquando emarginaiis, brevitcrpctiolatis striatis.—Decand., Prod.,vol. i. p. 559. Clusia flava. Foliis avcniis, corollis tetrapctalis.—Linn., Syst. Veg.,vol. iv. p. 328. Jacq., Stirp. Amer., p. 272, t. 167. Clusia arborca. Foliis crassis, intidis, obovato-subrotundis; Jioribus soli-tariis.—BiiowNE, Jam., p. 236. * NaiiRd in houor of Charles dc IEclusc, a celebrated botanist of the sixteenthcentury. PI. lAXVU.
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CiLLKia Hava. V YELLOW-FLOWERED BALSAM TREE. 59 Terebinthus folio singulari, non alato, rotundo succulcnto; jlorc ((irajnialo,pallide luieo, fruciii ijiajorc, monopyrcno.—Sloane, Jam., p. 167; Hist.,vol. i. p. 91, t. 200, f. 1. This singular and splendid tree is a native of Jamaica, andCayenne in South America, where it is found among rocks onthe declivities of mountains. We have now also to record it asa native of Key West in Florida, where it has recently heenfound, with so many other tropical productions, by Dr. Blodgett.It grows to the height of about twenty feet or upward, and, likeother kindred species of the germs, is parasitic on the trunk orlimbs of other trees,—a habit supposed to be occasioned by birdsaccidentally scattering the viscid seeds, which take root likethose of the Missletoe; when, having obtained a considerablesize, the roots creep along the surface of the tree in quest ofnourishment and support, penetrating into any decayed cavityof the supporting trunk, and

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