24 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



CAPPARIDACE^E. 



11. Capparis Jamaicensis, Jacquin, 



Stirp. Am. 160, t. 101. Alton, Hurt. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 285. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 252. DescourtUz, Fl. Med. Antilles, v. t. 273. 

 Macfadyen, Fl. Jamaica, -39. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 18. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 32. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 

 75. Eichler in Martius, Fl.Brasil. xiii, 270, t. 04, f. 11. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 6. 



C. Breynia, Liuujeus, Spec. 2 ed. 721, in part. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 285. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 252, in part. 

 Swartz, Obs. 210 [not Jacquin]. Macfadyen, Fl. Jamaica, 39. 



C. cynophyllopkora, Linnaeus, Spec. 1 ed. 504 [not subsequent ed. fide Eichler, I. c.]. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 285. 

 Macfadyen, Fl. Jamaica, 39. 



G. Siliquosa, Linnasus, Spec. 2 ed. 721. 



C. torulosa, Swartz, Prodr. 81. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 252. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 18. 



0. wndnata, Loddiges, Cat. [not Wallich]. 



C. emarginata, Richard, Fl. Cuba, 78, t. 9. Walpers, Rep. i, 201. 



Seini- tropical Florida, cape Canaveral to the southern keys ; in the West Indies and southward to Brazil. 



A small tree, sometimes 6 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 meter in diameter, or reduced to a low shrub; 

 common and reaching its greatest development within the United States OH Upper Metacombe and Umbrella Keys. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact, satiny, containing many evenly-distributed large open ducts; 

 medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color, yellow tinged with red, the sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.6971 ; 

 ash, 4.76. 



CANELLACE.E. 



12. Canella alba, Murray; 



Linnaeus, Syst. 14 ed. iv, 443. Swartz, Obs. 190 ; Trans. Linnaean Soc. i, 96, t. 8. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 851 ; Enum. i, 4%. Aiton, Hort. 

 Kew.Sed. iii, 144. Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. Suppl. 3, t. 10, f. 4. De Candolle, Prodr. i. 563. Hayne, Arzn. 9, t. 5. Stevenson 

 & Churchill, Med. Bot. ii, t. 66. Woodville, Med. Bot. 3 ed. iv, 694, t. 237. Liudley, Med. Bot. 116. Carson, Med. Bot. i, 24, t. 

 16. Griffith, Med. Bot. 181, f. 98. Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3 ser. i, 348 ; Contrib. i, 116. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 

 109. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 93. Guibourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. iii, 621, f. 767. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 7. Bentley & 

 Trimen, Med. PI. i, 26, t. 26. 



C. Winterana, Gsertner, Fruct. i, 377, t. 77. 



Wintera Canella, Linnasus, Spec. 2 ed. 636. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, viii, 799, t. 399. 



G. laurifolia, Loddiges, Cat. Sweet, Hort. Brit. 65. Don, Miller's Diet, i, 680. 



WHITE WOOD. CINNAMON BARK. WILD CINNAMON. 



Semi-tropical Florida, on the southern keys (Elliott's Key, Key Largo to Jew Fish Key); through the West 

 Indies. 



A small tree, often 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.22 meter in diameter ; not rare. 



Wood very heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, 

 dark reddish-brown, the sap-wood light brown or yellow; specific gravity, 0.9893; ash, 1.75. 



The pale inner bark appears in the Pharmacopcea under the name of Cortex canellce albce, furnishing an 

 aromatic stimulant and tonic, occasionally employed in cases of debility of the digestive organs, or as an adjunct 

 to more active remedies (Miers, 1. c. Fluckiger & Hanbury, PJiarmacographia, 68. U. 8. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 

 210. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 337). 



