ON THE FORESTS AND TREES OF FLORIDA AND THE 

 MEXICAN BOUNDARY.* 



BY J. G. COOPER, M. D. 



During an exploration of East Florida, from Key West north, made 

 between March 6th and June 10th, 1859, the writer was enabled to 

 make the following additions to the Sylva of the United States, as well 

 as new observations on their range, &c: 



Botanical name. 



Popular name. 



Anona, Linn. 



laurifoliti, Dunal. 



Chrysobalantjs, Linn. 

 icaco, Linn 



Cdstard Apple. 



Bumeila, Swartz. 



mastiehodendron, Roem. 

 and Sch 



Crescentia, Linn. 



(species undetermined) . 



Persea? Gaertner. 



(species undetermined) . 



Cocoa Plum 



Mastic Plum , 



Calabash tree. 

 Seven-year apple 



American Bay-tree. 

 White Bay 



Height. 



Range. 



Biscayne Bay. 



North to latitude 27° 30', 



Biscayne Bay. 

 Biscayne Bay. 

 Biscayne Bay. 



No. 3 b is new to the United States, but not uncommon near the 

 south end of Florida. It is well figured in Catesby's Carolina, Vol. II, 

 page and plate 6*7, only differing in having broader leaves in Florida. 

 The fruit is edible. Flowers in May in Florida. Specimens both of 

 flowers and fruit, with leaves, &c, preserved in syrup, vinegar, or 

 spirits, are very desirable, as the fleshy flowers fall to pieces when 

 dried. 



No. 132 is described in Torrey and Gray's Flora of North America, 

 Vol. I, page 406, and is also figured by Catesby as "Frutex Cotini 

 folio, &c." (Carolina, Vol. I, page and plate 25.) It abounds along 

 the rivers surrounding the Everglades, and produces an agreeable 

 fruit. 



No. 36 g is also well figured by Catesby as the "Cornus foliis lau- 

 rinis," (Vol. II, page and plate 75.) It. is described in De Candolle's 

 Prodromus as a Sideroxyloii, (Vol. VIII, page 181,) but the structure 

 of the seed shows that it is really a Bumelia. It differs materially 

 from B. fcelidissima, figured by Nuttall in his contiuation of Michaux's 

 Sylva, as the specimens he described from. plainly show. These are 

 now in Professor Torrey's herbarium, together Avith most of the others 

 sent from Key West by Dr. Blodgett. 



No. Ill b differs from any species described in the latest works ac- 



Supplementary to the article, by the author, in the Smithsonian Report for 1858, p. 246. 



