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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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rollamonopetalous, tubular-funnel-formed, exceeding tlie calyx in length,with the border regular and 4 or 5-cleft. Stamina numerous, ex-serted, (10 to 200,) with the capillary filaments more or less unitedinto a tube. Legume broadly linear, compressed, 1-celled. Seedsusually covered with pulp, more rarely with a pellicle or with fari-naceous matter. Shrubs or trees of warm or tropical climates, chiefly indigenous toIndia and America, usually unarmed. Flowers in spikes or globularheads, red or white, rarely yellow. BLUNT-LEAVED INGA. Inga UNGuis-CATi.f SpMs sUpularibus redis, foUis conjugaio-gemiruiiis,foliolis subroiundo-ellipiicis suhdimidiatis membranaceis glabris, glandula * An American name adopted by Plumier. f The specific name of unguis-cati alludes to the short and rather concealedthorns with which this tree is provided. Browne calls it the hiack-head shrub,and from others in Jamaica, according to Macfadyen, it receives the names ofBarharij Thorn and Nephritic Tree.IHO PI. LIV
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Z SmdcoTs lukTTnl. J.Mage^del Id ^a Unguis Cati. Mimt Uaxed Inga Jr^a omjle de chat. BLUNT-LEAVED INGA. 187 in dicliotomia pctioli glahri et inter foliola, fiorum ccqntuUs globosis in race-mum terminaleni dispositis, legumine torto.—Decand., Prod., vol. ii.p. 436. Mimosa unguis-cati.—Linn., Spec, 499. Willd., Sp. pi., vol. iv. p.1006. Jacquin, Hort. Schoenbrunn, vol. ii. tab. 34. Descourt.,•Flor. Antil., vol. i. tab. 11. Swartz., Obs., p. 389. Macfadyen,Flor. Jam., vol. i. p. 306. Acacia quadrifolia, siliquis circinaiis — Plumier, (Ed. Burman,) Icon. 4.Pluken., tab. 1, fig. 6. , Acacia arhorea major spinosa, pinnis quatuor, siliquis varie intortis.—Sloane, Hist. Jam., vol. ii. p. 56. Mimosa fridicosa, foliis ovatis binato-binatis, seminihus atro-niteniibus.—Browne, Jamaic, p. 252. This very singular-leaved tree, attaining about the height offrom ten to twenty feet, is indigenous to many of the West IndiaIslands, as well as to Cumana and Cayenne on the neighboringcontinent,

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