CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 21 



CUCUMBER TREE. 



Southern Alleghany Mountain region, near Augusta, Georgia (Michaux, Elliott), head of Sipsey creek, "valley 

 of Davidson creek", Winston county, Alabama (Mohr). 



A tree 22 to 24 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.60 meter in diameter ; low, rich woods ; very rare 

 and local. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact; medullary rays very numerous, thin; color, light brown 

 streaked with yellow, the sap-wood light yellow; specific gravity, 0.4139; ash, 0.32. 



5. Magnolia macrophylla, Michaux, 



Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 327. Nouvcau Dubamel, ii, 221. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii,5. Aiton, Hort. KOTV. 2 ed. iii, 331. Poiret, Suppl. iii, 

 573. Michaux f. Hist. Avb. Am. iii, 99, t. 7 ; N. American Sylva, ii, 26, t. 57. Bonpland, PI. Malm. 84, t. 33. Pursh, Fl. Am. 

 Sept. ii, 381. Nnttall, Genera, ii, 18 ; Sylva, i, 83 ; 2 ed. i, 99. De Candolle, Syst. i, 454 ; Prodr. i, 80. Bot. Mag. t. 2189. Hayne, 

 Dend. Fl. 117. Elliott, Sk. ii, 40. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 642. Rafinesque, Mod. Bot. ii, 31, t. 62. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 218. 

 Sertuin Botanicum, v & t. Don, Miller's Diet, i, 83. Groom in Am. Jour. Sci. 1 ser. xxv, 76. Reicheubach, Fl. Exot. ii, 44, t. 

 139. London, Arboretum, i, 271 & t. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 312. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i,43. Spach, Hist. Veg. vii, 

 479. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 308. Griffith, Mod. Bot. 98, f. 57. Darby, Bot. S. States, 211. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 250. 

 Seringe, Fl. Jard. iii, 230. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 14. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 67. Wood, Cl. 

 Book, 214 ; Bot. & Fl. 25. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 49. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 374. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 6. 



LARGE-LEAVED CUCUMBER TREE. 



North Carolina, eastern base of the Alleghany mountains (Iredell and Lincoln counties); southeastern Kentucky 

 southward to middle and western Florida and southern Alabama, extending west to the valley of Pearl river, 

 Louisiana; central Arkansas (Garland, Montgomery, Hot Springs, and Sebastian counties). 



A tree 6 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk rarely 0.60 meter in diameter; rich woods, reaching its greatest 

 development in the limestone valleys of northern Alabama ; rare and local. 



Wood light, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact, satiny; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, brown, 

 the sap-wood light yellow; specific gravity, 0.5309; ash, 0.35. 



6. Magnolia Umbrella, Lamarck, 



Diet, iii, 673. Nouveau Duhamel, ii, 221. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 80. Loiseleur, Herb. Amat. iii, t. 198. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 642. 

 Don, Miller's Diet, i, 83. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 43. Spach, Hist. Veg. vii, 475. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 308. Seringe, Fl. 

 Jard. iii, 227. Gray, Genera, i, 62, t. 24; Proc. Linnsean Soc. ii, 106, f. 1-18; Manual N. States, 5 ed. 49. Cooper in Smithsonian 

 Rep. 1858, 250. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 13.--Cnrtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 67. Wood, Cl. Book, 214; 

 Bot. & Fl. 25. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 38. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 6. 



M. Virginiana, var. tripetala, Linnams, Spec, l ed. 536. 



M. tripetala, Linnaeus, Spec. 2 ed. 756. Marshall, Arbustuin, 84. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 159. B. S. Barton, Coll. i, 14. 

 Alton, Hort. Kew. ii, 252; 2 ed. iii, 331. WUldenow, Spec, ii, 1258; Enum. i, 579. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 327. 

 Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 5. De Candolle, Syst. i, 452. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 90, t. 5 ; N. American Sylva, 

 3 ed. ii, 20, t. 5. Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 381. Nnttall, Genera, ii, 18; Sylva, i, 84; 2 ed. i, 100. Guimpel, Otto & 

 Hayne, Abb. Holz. 20, t. 18. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 116. Elliott, Sk. ii, 38. Torrqy, Compend. Fl. N. States, 321. 

 Rafinesque, Med. Bot. ii, 32. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 218. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 312. Griffith, Mod. Bot. 98. 

 London, Arboretum, i, 269, t. 5. Darby, Bot. S. States, 211. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 37. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 891. 



UMBRELLA TREE. ELK WOOD. 



Southeastern Pennsylvania, southward along the Alleghany mountains to central Alabama (Prattville, Mohr) 

 and northeastern Mississippi, westward through Kentucky and Tennessee; in central (Hot Springs) and 

 southwestern Arkansas (Fulton, valley of the Ked river, Harvey}. 



A small tree, rarely exceeding 12 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.40 meter in diameter; rich, shady 

 hillsides ; most common and reaching its greatest development along the western slope of the southern Alleghany 

 mountains. 



Wood" light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact; medullary rays very numerous, thin; color, brown, the 

 heavier sap-wood nearly white; specific gravity, 0.4487; ash, 0.20. 



