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SIZVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



IlUTACE^, 



of annual growth^ is yellow. The specific gravity of the absolutely dry wood is 0.7444 a cuhi f 

 the dry wood weighing 46.39 pounds. 



Paul Hermann ' published in 1689 the earliest account of Xanthoxylum Fagara ; the first fio- 

 is that of Plukenet/ published in 1691. It was discovered in Florida by Dr. J. L. Blod^ett ^V^ 

 Texas on Matagorda Bay in February, 1845, by Mr. Ferdinand Lindheimer.^ ' 



Xanthoxylum Fagara ' was cultivated in England as early as 1782 by Philip Miller.^ 



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1 "-'An Coriaria Arbor spmosa AcacicE foUis ^ facie, Parad. Bat. 

 Prodr." 



2 Hhus Ohsoniorum similis leptipliyllos, Tragodes, Americana, spi- 

 nosa, racU medio appendicibus aucto, Aim. Bot. 319, t. 107, f. 4 



Lauro affinis Jasmini folio alato, casta' media memhranulis utrin- 

 que extantibus alata, ligni duritie ferro viz cedens, Sloane, Cat. PL 

 Jam. 137 ; Nat. Hist. Jam. il. 25, t. 1G2, f. 1.— Kay, Hist. PI. 

 Dendr. iii. 86. 



Sclunoides petiolis suhtus aculeatis, Linnajus, Hort. Cliff. 489. 

 Schinus foliis pinnatis ; foliolis ov.-oUongis, petiolo marginato artic- 

 ulate inermi, Liiinreus, Mat. Med. 187. 



3 Ferdinand Liudheimer (1801-1879), a German resident of 

 Texas, where he was a most assiduous and successful botanical col- 

 lector and observer during a period of more than thirty years. He 

 was a member of the German colony at New Eraunfels. where he 



edited a newspaper and where he died. He discovered a lar e 

 number of new plants, among them Lindheimera Texana a we^ 

 known garden annual. Slany of his discoveries were published by 

 Engelmann and Gray in the Journal of the Boston Society of Nat. 

 ural History {Plantce Lindheimerianm). 



* Fagara was early used by the Arabians to designate an aro- 

 matie plant of which the name is now lost (Wittstein, Etymolog. Bot. 

 Hand.). It was afterwards taken up by Clusius and the apothe^ 

 caries to designate, nnder the name of Fagarm majores, the aro- 

 matic fruit of some eastern tree, probably of Xanthoxylum Rhetsa, 

 DC, of India. Linnaius, under the impression, perhaps, that the 

 American plant was identical with the tree which produced the Fa- 

 gara: of commerce, gave it the specific name Fagara. 

 • 5 Alton, Hort. Kew. i. 16l'. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



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Plate XXXIL " Xanthoxylum Fagara. 



1. A flowering branch of a staminate tree, natural size. 



2. A flowering branch of a pistillate tree, natural size. 



3. A staminate flower, enlarged. 



■ 4. Vertical section of a staminate flower, enlarged. 



5. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 



6. Vertical section o£ a pistillate flower, eiflarged. 



7. Cluster of fruit, natural size. 

 S. A ripe carpel, enlarged. 



9. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 



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