. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Loblolly Bay 705 II. LOBLOLLY BAY GENUS GORDOHIA ELLIS Species Gordonia Lasianthns (Linnaeus) Ellis Hypericum Lasianthus Linnaeiis LSO called Tan bay, this is a large evergreen tree of the southeastern States, ranging from southern Virginia to Florida and Louisiana, near the coast; it reaches a maximum height of 25 meters, with a trunk diameter of 5 dm., usually much smaller and sometimes shrubby. The trunk is usually str
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Loblolly Bay 705 II. LOBLOLLY BAY GENUS GORDOHIA ELLIS Species Gordonia Lasianthns (Linnaeus) Ellis Hypericum Lasianthus Linnaeiis LSO called Tan bay, this is a large evergreen tree of the southeastern States, ranging from southern Virginia to Florida and Louisiana, near the coast; it reaches a maximum height of 25 meters, with a trunk diameter of 5 dm., usually much smaller and sometimes shrubby. The trunk is usually straight, the branches upright or spreading. The bark is 2 cm. thick, deeply fissured into ridges and splitting into small reddish brown scales. The twigs are stout, dark brown. The winter buds are sharp-pointed, 6 to 8 mm. long, and silky hairy. The leaves are thick and leathery, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, 5 to 15 cm. long, pointed or blimtish at the apex, narrowed at the base into a short-winged stalk, finely toothed above the middle, dark green, smooth, and shining above, dull green and smooth beneath. The flowers, opening from Jime to September, are large and showy, white, borne on smooth stalks 3 to 7 cm. long, in the axils of the upper leaves; they are sub- tended by several small, early-falling bracts; the calyx is composed of 5 imequal sepals, suborbicular, 8 to 12 mm. long, fringed and velvety; the corolla is 5 to 7 cm. across; the petals are ovate to elliptic, to cm. long, united and narrowed at the base, rounded at the apex and silky-hairy. The nimierous sta- mens are on a 5-lobed, cup-shaped, fleshy disk at the base of the petals, their fila- ments short and distinct; anthers yellow, versatile; ovary 5-celled, ovoid; style stout, with spreading stigmas; ovules 4 in each cavity. The fruit is an ovoid cap- sule, 15 to 18 mm. long, sharp-pointed, silky, spUtting into 5 segments, the angu- lar central placental axis remaining. Seeds 2 to 4' in each cell, fl
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