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flash like golden satin, and glow with a sort of 

 radiance or sheen. 



There are the mastic and the poison tree, the 

 latter a cousin of our northern poison ivy, there 

 are hog plum, pigeon plum, darling plum, and two 

 species of coco "plums." The lovely paradise 

 tree will be seen with its long, handsome 

 pinnate leaves shining as though freshly varnished. 

 Every part of it is intensely bitter and it is prob- 

 ably one of the trees that furnishes quassia chips. 

 Here is the wild lime and its near relative the 

 "toothache" tree, with bark and leaves acrid 

 enough to cause or cure anything. There is the 

 locustberry, which may be either a shrub or a tree, 

 bearing daintily beautiful blossoms, and the soap- 

 berry, the fruit of which when macerated in water 

 produces a lather with all the qualities of soap. 

 There are ironwood, lancewood, fiddlewood, ink- 

 wood, white-wood, yellow-wood, torchwood, and 

 the beautifully variegated crabwood, used to make 

 canes and various ornaments. The torchwood is 

 so filled with resin that it is used for torches ; it 

 may also be a source of gum elemi, as its specific 

 name elemifera would indicate. There are also dog- 

 wood, naked wood and, in the vicinity of the 



