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SYLVA AMERICANA. 



in the spring, and are collected in numerous white bunches. The 

 fruit is of the same color with that of the common horse chesnut 

 and of the large buckeye, and of about half the size : it is 

 contained in fleshy, prickly capsules, and is ripe in the beginning 

 of autumn. 



On the trunk of the largest trees the bark is blackish, and the 

 cellular integument is impregnated with a venomous and disa- 

 greeable odor. The wood is white, soft, and wholly useless. 



PJNCKNEYA. 



Pentandiia Monorrynia. Linn. Rubiacoe. Juss. Weak tome, aperient. 



Georgia Bark. Pinckneya pubens. 



This tree, still more inter- 

 esting by the properties of 

 its bark, than by the elegance 

 of its flowers and of its foliage, 

 is indigenous to the most 

 southern parts of the United 

 States. The situation most 

 favorable to its growth is a 

 cool, shady exposure with a 

 rich and fertile soil. 



The Georgia bark is a 

 low tree, dividing itself into 

 numerous branches, and 

 rarely exceeding the height 

 of 25 feet, and a diameter 

 of five or six inches at the 

 base. Its leaves are opposite, 

 four or five inches long, of a light green color, and downy beneath, 

 as are also the shoots to which they are attached. The flowers 

 which are white with longitudinal, rose-colored stripes, are pretty 

 large, and are collected in beautiful panicles at the extremity of 

 the branches. Each flower is accompanied by a floral leaf, 

 bordered with rose color near the upper edge. The capsules 



plate lxii. 



Fig. 1. A leaf. Fig. 2. A seed vessel. 



