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INDEX 



Calcification, 11 



Cape ash, 229 



Carya, 69 



Cari)inites, 109 



Caqiinus, origin of name, 107 



Castagno di cento cavalli, 140 



Castanea, origin of name, 140 



Castanopsis, 129 



distribution of, 135 

 Cataclj'sms, how explained, 3 

 Cedar elm, 149, 153 

 Celtis, origin of name, 154 

 Cenozoic era, 8 

 Central American forests, 37 

 Cercis, 201 

 Chapote, 257 

 Charlemagnes oak, 132 

 Charter oak, 133 

 Chestnut blight, 142 

 Chestnuts, fossils of, 143 



range of, 141 



size of, 143 



sketch of, 140 



wood of, 143 

 Chinese hickory, 70 

 Chinese tulip tree, 171 

 Chinese wax, 227 

 Christmas holly, 212 

 Clammy locust, 196 

 Climate, 4, 6 



Coffee beans, fossils of, 195 

 Concord elm, 148 

 Cornel family, 239 

 Cornus, origin of name, 239 

 Cork elm, 149 

 Cork oak, 136 



Corylus, origin of name, 103 

 Cotton gum, 243 

 Costa Rica region, 38 

 Cretaceous, alders of, 114 



beeches of, 122 



birches of, 101 



geography of, 17 



life of, 48 



oaks of, 137 



poplars of, 90 

 sequoias of, 49 

 sycamores of, 158 

 walnuts of, 74 

 willows of, 84 

 Cretaceous period, 8 

 Cypress knees, 57 



Dahoon, 213 

 Deciduous forests, 32 

 Devil wood, 225 

 Diospyros, 256 

 Dipteronia, 216 

 Dogwood, flowers of, 239 



fruit of, 240 



geologic history of, 241-243 



leaves of, 241 



range of, 240 



sketch of, 239 

 Drimys, 165, 166 

 Dryophyllum, 129 



descendants of, 130 



illustrations of, 142 



occurrences of, 142 



E 



Ebony family, 255 

 Elm family, 146 



fruits of, 147 

 Elms, geologic record of, 149 



illustrations of, 151 



in the Pleistocene, 153 



range of, 147 



sketch of, 147 

 Engelhardtia, fruit of, 77 



range of, 76 

 Eocene, alders of, 110 



beeches of, 123, 127 



birches of, 102 



chestnuts of, 143 



cypress of, 61 



elms of, 149 



geography of, 22 



hazels of, 105 



