Identifier: northamericansyl04mich (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
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tended by large, oblongsmembranous, brown stijDules. The taste of the plant is astrin-gent, but noway mucilaginous. This remarkable species appears to be nearly allied to Ulmuschinensis, judging from the short description in Persoon andDuhamel. The flowers are fasciculated in small numbers andon short peduncles. The samara is elliptic, rather deeply bifidat the summit, covered with a dense and somewhat ferruginouspubescence even when ripe. . Of the uses and quality of the timber of this species I amunable to speak from experience, as it grew remote from thesettlements at that time established in the territory. The den-sity of shade produced by it, so crowded with rigid leaves, andthe peculiarity of its appearance, entitle it to a place in thenurseries of the curious, and it is probably quite hardy enoughfor all temperate climates. To this species Virgils epithet— Fcecundae frondibus ulmi— might more justly be applied than to any other. PLATE XL A branch of the natural size. PI.XU.
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CItous xaceauosa. ThojruJSs E/f/u 0, line/ a^yrappe/ THOMASS ELM. Ulmus racemosa, (Thomas.) FoUis ovatis acuminaiis duplicaio-serratisglabris suhius puhescmtihus; floribus racemosis fasciculatis. Ulmus racemosa, flowers in racemes ; pedicles in distinct fascicles,united at their bases; leaves ovate, acuminate, doubly serrate,glabrous above, (minutely) pubescent beneatb; stigmas recurved.Eatons North Am. Bot., (ed. 8.,) p. 464. Thomas, in SillimansJourn. Sci., vol. xix. p. 170, with a Plate. This species, confounded with our other Elms, is, accordingto Professor Torrey, an abundant species in the western partof the State of New York, and, probably, of the WesternStates generally. Mr. Thomas, its discoverer, found it in Ca-yuga county, in the State of New York, and in the adjacentcountry. According to Emerson, he believes Mr. Oakes hasobtained specimens from Vermont, collected by Dr. Kobbins, sothat it is probably a Northern and Western species. The lower, stout branches, according to M

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