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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: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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ant, the mountains of Nepaul andCuba, and the forests of the United States. The true Celtides havealternate, entire, deciduous, and mostly cordate leaves, generallyoblique at the base, 3-nerved, entire, but mostly serrated on themargin. The stipules are membranaceous and deciduous. Theflowers are precocious, or appear before the expansion of the leaves,with a film-like irregularly-torn membranous perianth, the staminifer-ous ones near the base of the branchlet pedicellate, and three or fourtogether. The fertile flowers are solitary and axillary, on shortpeduncles. The drupes brownish yellow, rather sweet, insipid, andnearly juiceless. For the tropical species with axillary cymes coeval with the leaves,two distinct styles, and an ovary with two ovules, I propose the nameof Trachydendron, (in allusion to their rough pubescent leaves andtwigs.) Most of these species have a tough fibrous bark of the natureof hemp. * The ancient nunic of the Lnftis, applied to tins genus by Linnaeus.140 PI
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(Vltts retkiQata. ^via/l /fawf? 2/W/:fe free ■ ^ifoeouher riftcu^e. SMALL-LEAVED NETTLE TREE. Celtis reticulata. Foliis brevibus, lato-cordatis, subcoriaceis, vix ciirreyulariter serratis acviis basi obliqids scabris, subius subglabris vmiselevatis reticulalis, 2)edimcuUs fruciiferis imijioris. Celtis reticulata.—Torrey, in Annals of Lyceum, N. Y., vol. ii.p. 247. This low-growing species of Nettle Tree was discovered byDr. James near the base of the Rocky Mountains; I likewise metwith it in the same mountain range, by small streams, and alsoalong the borders of the Oregon, toward the Blue Mountains,particularly along the banks of the Brulee, a small stream fallinginto that river. It does not, in the situations where we observedit, become a timber tree, but rather a tall shrub, full of slender,and at length smooth, branches. The leaves become thick andrigid, and are about an inch and a half long by less than an incliwide, acute, but scarcely acuminate, with a few irregular serra-t

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