120 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. POLYGONACE. 
and contains small scattered open ducts, the layers of annual growth and the numerous medullary rays 
being hardly distinguishable; it is rich dark brown tinged with red, with thick lighter colored sapwood. 
The specific gravity of the absolutely dry wood is 0.9835, a cubic foot weighing 61.29 pounds. In 
Florida it is occasionally used in cabinet-making. 
The fruit is devoured by raccoons and other mammals, and by many birds. 
Coccolobis laurifolia was discovered on the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby, and the first 
account and figure of this tree was published in 1743 in his Natural Mistory of Carolina.’ The 
earliest mention of it as an inhabitant of Florida is found in Bernard Romans’ Concise Natural 
Eistory of Kast and West Florida, published in 1775.2 It was introduced early in the present 
century into Kuropean gardens,’ and in 1820 flowered near Paris.* 
1 Cerasus latiore folio ; fructu racemoso purpureo majore, ii. 94, t. 8 Willdenow, Enum. 431.— Link, Enum. i. 386.— Endlicher, 
94. Cat. Hort. Vindob. i. 274. 
2 «Coccoloba, with oblong egg shaped veined leaves, with pointed * Mordant de Launay, Herb. Amat. v. t. 323. 
grapelike fruit less than currants.” (22.) 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate CCC. CoccoLopis LAURIFOLIA. 
A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Diagram of a flower. 
. Portion of a rachis with two flowers, enlarged, showing the ochreole. 
A flower, enlarged. 
Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
An ovule, much magnified. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. Cross section of a fruit, enlarged. 
OC ONAMAPR Ww He 
Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 
10. A seed, enlarged. 
11 An embryo, enlarged. 
