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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Pine woods of Wappa-too Island, in both which places it was frequently about twohundred and forty feet in height. The w^ood was found to besoft, white, and coarse-grained, yet very well suited for flooringand other purposes when better timber could not be had. Thistree mostly presents a tall naked shaft of one hundred or morefeet in height, when it commences to branch with a high, spread-ing, pyramidal summit; the bark is smooth and brownish, theleaves pectinate and spreading, in about two rows, linear, round-ish at the point, and often notched, green above and silverybeneath, somewhat dilated toward the apex, and about an inchlong. The cones lateral, single, cylindrical and ol)tuse, some-thing like those of A. cedrus, (the Cedar of Lebanon,) aboutthree and a half inches long and two inches broad, of a browncolor; the scales transverse, very broad, deciduous, and quiteentire. Bracteoles ovate-acuminate, irregularly notched along the margin, and much shorter than the scales.192 II crni
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.\btes Nobilis Sgc^jiuteJ SiU^tr/x-r Sitva^v^Ma.- DECORATED SILVER F T R. 193 The Piiim amahlli.s o^ Douglas is pmljulilv a mvw v:iricl\- u(the present. London gives two figures from Douglass s(KH-iiiiciisin the Herbarium of the London Horticultural Socich-, (-J-JITand 2248.) The cone is, however, said to be twice as large asthat of specimens of A. gnuidis sent home by Douglas, luimeh,six mches long and two and a half l)i-();ul; the Icmvcs are likewiseentire, instead of being notched. In other respects no dillereuceis visible. Young plants are growing in the societys garden atChiswick. DECORATED SILVER FIR. Abies xobilis. FolUs falcalis brcvibus acuds suhdis arr/mfri.^, straliiUsereciis, ovato-cylindracds elongatis, squamis ladssimis, ^/v/r/coZ/.s (l,hii<ii<,-spathulaiis dejlexis squamas iegentibus, crosis medio suhnhiio-afumiiKilis. PiNUS nohilis.—^Douglas, MSS. Lamb., Pin., vol. ii. last tlgnre.Hooker, Flor. Bor. Am., vol. ii. p. 1G2. PiCER nohilis.—Loudon, Arboret., vol.

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