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." Celtis occidentalis. 



50. iiKjldndcd'. yuglans rcgia, four varieties of; nigra. 

 C'arya, sp. (" Virginian m alnut with long furrow'd fruit"), sp. 

 (" the hickery, or white Virginian walnut"), sp. (" the small 

 white Virginian Walnut, or hickery"). 



51. Salicinefe. Salix alba, pentandra, sp. '(" the long-leav'd 

 sweet [scented leafj \villo\v"), babylonica, fragilis, ? rtmygdalina 

 or ? triiindra, vitelPina, ? caprea ; ? c, round-leaved ; c., round- 

 leaved-variegated. Populus canescens, alba ; a., variegated- 

 leaved ; tremula, nigra. 



52. BetuUnece. JSctula alba, yl'lnus glutinosa and ? oblongata. 



53. Ciipuliferce. Quercus 7'lex, four varieties of; coccifcra, 

 Bobur ; R., 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 ;" 

 »Siiber, " the broad-lcav'd cork tree ;" S., " the narrow-leav'd 

 cork tree." Carpinus ^etulus; B., striped-leaved ; O'strya vul- 

 garis and virginica ; Castanea vesca ; v., leaf elegantly variegated ; 

 pumila ; Fagus sylvatica ; s., yellow-variegated-leaved : Corylus 

 ^vellana, and five varieties of it. 



54. Vlatanete. Platanus orientiilis, occidentalis, ? acerifolia; 

 Liquidambar styraciflua. 



55. ^lyricece, il/yrica GaJe, cerifera, carolinensis. 



56. Coniferce. Cedrus Libani, Zarix europae^a : e., with the 

 rudiments of the cone white ; 7-*inus sylvestris, Pinaster, sp. 

 ("Finns; Americana, foliis pra^longis, subinde ternis, conis 

 plurimis confertini nascentibus"), Pinea, Strobus, palustris; 

 ^I'bies excelsa, Picea, sp. or var. ("Abies; minor, pectinatis 

 foliis, Virginiana, conis parvis subrotundis. Pluk. Aim. 2. Phyt. 

 tab. 121. f. 1."); sp. or var. (" Abies ; Piceic foliis, brcvibus ; 

 conis minimis. Rand'') ; nigra ; balsamifera, sp. or var. (" Abies; 

 taxi folio ; fructu longisjsimo, dcorsum inflexo. Long-con'd 

 Cornish .fir") ; Schubcrt/a disticha, Cupressus sempervirens ; 

 ? s., horizontrdis ; 7'hiija occidentrUis, occidentalis with its leaves 

 elegantly variegated ; Jiixus baccata : b., leaf variegated ; b., 

 *' the broad shining-leav'd yew ;" t/uniperus communis, suecica, 

 virginiana,? virginiana humilis ; bermudiana, 6'abina; <S., va- 

 riegated-leaved ; ? S.y "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, Mho 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 



