68 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 
“‘ There are some other varieties of these trees in the nurseries 
near London, which, not having been examined, we shall omit 
at present.” Céltis occidentalis. 
50. Juglindee. Juglans régia, four varieties of; nigra. 
Carya, sp. (“ Virginian walnut with long furrow’d fruit”), sp. 
(“the hickery, or white Virginian walnut”), sp. (“ the small 
white Virginian walnut, or hickery”). 
51. Salicinee. Salix alba, pentandra, sp. (* the long-leav’d 
sweet [scented leaf] willow”), babylonica, fragilis, ? amygdalina 
or ? tridndra, vitellina, ? caprea;'? c., round-leaved ; c., round- 
leaved-variegated. P6épulus canéscens, alba; a., variegated- 
leaved ; trémula, nigra. 
52. Betulinee. Bétula alba, A’Inus glutindsa and ? oblongata. 
53. Cupulifere. Quercus Ilex, four varieties of; coccifera, 
Robur; £#., leaf white-variegated; alba, “ evergreen oak with 
broad leaves like the common oak,” “ the scarlet oak,” “ the 
Virginian chestnut-leav’d oak,” ‘ the Virginian willow-leav’d 
oak,” “the chinquapin oak,” “ the Spanish cut-leav’d oak ;” 
Suber, “ the broad-leav’d cork tree;” S., ** the narrow-leav’d 
cork tree.” Carpinus Bétulus; B., striped-leaved; O’strya vul- 
garis and virginica; Castanea vésca; v., leaf elegantly variegated ; 
pumila; Fagus sylvatica; s., yellow-variegated-leaved ; Corylus 
Avellana, and five varieties of it. 
54. Platdnee. Platanus orientalis, occidentalis, ? acerifolia ;_ 
Liquidambar styraciflua. 
55. Myricee, Myrica Gale, cerifera, carolinénsis. 
56. Conifere. Cédrus Libani, Larix europea: e., with the 
rudiments of the cone white; Pinus sylvéstris, Pinaster, sp. 
(* Pinus; Americana, foliis praelongis, subinde ternis, conis 
plurimis confertim nascentibus”), Pinea, Strdbus, paltistris ; 
Abies excélsa, Picea, sp. or yar. (“ Abies; minor, pectinatis 
foliis, Virginiana, conis parvis subrotundis. Pluk. Alm. 2. Phyt. 
tab. 121. f.1.”); sp. or var. (** Abies; Piceze foliis, brevibus ; 
conis minimis. Rand.”); nigra; balsamifera, sp. or var. (** Abies; 
taxi folio; fructu longissimo, deorsum inflexo. Long-con’d 
Cornish firr”); Schubértza disticha, Cupréssus sempervirens ; 
?s., horizontalis; Thuja occidentalis, occidentalis with its leaves 
elegantly variegated; Taxus baccata; b., leaf variegated; b., 
‘«‘ the broad shining-leav’d yew ;” Juniperus communis, suécica, 
virginiana, ? virginiana humilis ;bermudiana, Sabina; S., va- 
riegated-leaved ; ? S., “ the berry-bearing or upright savin.” 
The introducers of foreign trees and shrubs in the early part 
of the eighteenth century are much indebted to Mark Catesby, 
an enthusiastic naturalist, who travelled in North America from 
1712 to 1726, when he returned to England, made himself 
master of the art of etching, and published his splendid work, 
containing the natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the 
