INDEX 



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Liriodendron, 165, 166, 233 



origin of name, 171 

 Locust, flowers of, 194 



fossils of, 195 



geologic history of, 196, 197 



range of, 193 



size of, 193 



sketch of, 193 



wood of, 194 

 Lombardy poplar, 89 

 Lyell, Charles, 4 



Magnolia, flowers of, 167 



fossils of, 166 



geologic history, 169 



leaves of, 168 



origin of name, 167 



range of, 168 



sketch of, 167 

 Magnolia family, 165 



distribution of, 165 



map showing distribution, 166 



origin of, 165 

 Manna ash, 228 

 Manna of Scriptures, 228 

 Maple family, 216 



Map of Pleistocene arctic willows, 87 

 Maples, ashes of, 217 



fossils of, 219 



fruits of, 220 

 Maples, geologic history of, 221-224 



leaves of, 220 



range of, 218 



sap of, 218 



sketch of, 216 



utilizationof, 217, 218 



wood of, 217 

 Maple sugar, 218 

 Mate, 213 

 Mesozoic era, 8 

 Mexican cypress, 59 

 Michelia, 165 

 Mimosa family, 191 



Miocene, alders in, 116 



beeches in, 127 



birches in, 102 



chestnut in, 143 



cypress in, 62 



hickories in, 71 



hornbeam in, 109 



magnolia in, 170 



maple in, 222 



oaks in, 138 



persimmons in, 259 



platanus in, 162 



poplars in, 92 



sequoias in, 52 



walnuts in, 75 



willows in, 85 

 Miocene epoch, 8 

 Mistletoe, 131 

 Mountain ash, 229 

 Muir, John, cited, 42 



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Negundo, 216, 220 

 New Jersey in Jurassic time, 47 

 North America, Cretaceous geography 

 of, 17 



Eocene geography of, 21 



forests of, 28 



geologic history of, 16 



Oligocene geography of, 24 

 Nothofagus, 122 



distribution of, 135 

 Nyssa, origin of name, 243 



Oak of Mamre, 131 

 Oak of Ophrah, 131 

 Oaks, ancestors of, 130, 139 



association with mistletoe, 131 



illustrations of, 145 



range of, 132 



sketch of, 129 



species of, 133 



wood of, 136 

 Oil of wintergreen, 101 



