. 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. Red Bay 399 to 5 mm. long, somewhat longer than the outer ones; the ovary is densely hairy. The fruit is oval or pear-shaped (Avocado of the Spanish), large, i8 cm. long or less, drooping, stalked, smooth, the thick, oily pulp deUcious, and is now produced in considerable quantities in southern Florida. The two following native species differ much from the Alligator pear in aspect, in the size and shape of the fruit, as w
. 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. Red Bay 399 to 5 mm. long, somewhat longer than the outer ones; the ovary is densely hairy. The fruit is oval or pear-shaped (Avocado of the Spanish), large, i8 cm. long or less, drooping, stalked, smooth, the thick, oily pulp deUcious, and is now produced in considerable quantities in southern Florida. The two following native species differ much from the Alligator pear in aspect, in the size and shape of the fruit, as well as in some features of the flowers, and have received the generic name Tamala Rafinesque. 2. RED BAY — Porsea Borbonia (Linnaeus) Sprengel Laurus Borbonia Linnaeus The Red bay or Sweet bay, known also as Florida mahogany, Tisswood, and Laurel tree, inhabits moist soil from Virginia to Florida, Texas, and southern Arkansas, reaching a maximum height of about 25 me- ters, with a trunk sometimes a meter in diam- eter, often forming a considerable part of the forest. The thick, dark brown bark is deeply fissured into small plates; the young twigs are brown, smooth, or slightly hairy. The leaves are oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 15 cm. long, pointed at both ends, bright green, smooth and shining on the upper side, pale and smooth or sparingly hairy on the veins of the under surface, very finely netted-veined on both sides; the reddish leaf-stalks are i to 2 cm. long. The flowers open from March to May and are borne in small stalked clusters in the leaf-axils, the stalks of the clusters smooth or nearly so, i to 2 cm. long; the yel- lowish white, finely hairy calyx is about 3 mm. long, the inner sepals two or three times as long as the outer, and about as long as the stamens, which have hairy filaments; the ovary is smooth, and ripens into a globular or obovoid blue or nearly black shining fruit, i to cm. in diameter, seated upon the persistent calyx. The wood, used to
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