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SATIN WOOD. 



Semi-tropical Florida, south Babia Honda and Boca Chica Keys; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, 6 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.40 meter in diameter. 



Wood very heavy, exceedingly hard, not strong, brittle, fine-grained, compact, satiny, susceptible of a beautifnl 

 polish; medullary rays numerous, thin, conspicuous ; color, light orange, the sap-wooa lighter; specific gravity, 

 0.9002; ash, 2.02. 



25. Xanthoxylum Pterota, HBK. 



Nov. Geu. & Spec, vi, 3. Kunth, Syn. iii, 325. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 725. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 680. Macfadyen, Fl. 

 Jamaica, 190. Nuttall, Sylva, iii, 11, t. 84 ; 2 ed. ii, 81, t. 84. Seemaun, Hot. Herald, 275. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 

 43. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 264. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 66. Young, Bot. Texas, 195. Plauchon & Triana ill Ann. 

 Sci. Nat. 5 ser. xiv, 311. Engler in Martins, Fl. Brasil. xii 2 , 154. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 8. Hemsley, Bot. Am.-Cent. i, 

 169. Watson in Proc. Am. Acad. xvii, 335. 



Fagara Pterota, Linnaeus, Aiuoen, v, 393, in part. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 444 ; 111. i, 335, t. 84. Willdenow, Spec, i, 666. 

 Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. i, 263. Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. 40. Turpin, Diet. Sci. Nat. xvi, 107, t. 127. 



Fagara lentiscifolia, Willdenow, Enum. i, 166. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 137. 



WILD LIME. 



Semi-tropical Florida, Mosquito inlet to the southern keys, on the west coast from about latitude 29 to cape 

 Sable; southwestern Texas, and southward through Mexico to Brazil. 



A small tree, sometimes 8 meters in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.15 meter in diameter, or often 

 reduced to a slender shrub ; in Florida common, and reaching its greatest development on the keys of the west 

 coast ; in Texas not common, but widely distributed as a small shrub, or on the shores of Matagorda bay, west 

 of the Nueces river, and in the valley of the Eio Grande a low tree. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact; medullary rays thin, numerous; color, brown tinged with red, the 

 sap-wood yellow ; specific gravity, 0.7444; ash, 0.78. 



26. Ptelia trifoliata, Linnieus, 



Spec. 1 ed. 118. Medicus, Bot. Beobacht. 215. Marshall, Arbnstuni, 115. Walter, Fl. Camliniana, 88. Aiton. Hort. Kew. i, 162; 2 ed. 

 i, 264. Lamarck, 111. i, 336, t. 84. Moench, Meth. 55. Willdenow, Spec, i, 670; Enum.i, 116. Nouveau Duhaiuel, i, 252, t.57. 

 Michaux, Fl.Bor. Am. i, 99. Schkuhr, Hamlb. 83, t. 83. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 706. Persoou, Syu. i, 145. Desfontaines, 

 Hist. Arb. ii, 343. Robin, Voyages, iii, 509. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 107. Nuttall, Genera, i, 104. Guimpel, Otto & Hayne, Abb. 

 Holz. 94, t. 74. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 8. Elliott, Sk. i, 201. Roemer & Schultes, Syst. iii, 291. Torrey, Fl. U. S. 189 ; Compend. Fl. N. 

 States, 86. Fl.N. York, i, 133; Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 73; Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 43. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 82. Sprengel, 

 Syst. i, 441. Turpin, Diet. Sci. Nat. xliv, 2, t. 128. A. do Jussieu in Mem. Mns. xii, t. 26, f. 42. Beck in Am. Jour. Sci. 1 ser. x, 264 ; 

 Bot. 71. Don, Miller's Diet, i, 806. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 369. Hooker, Jour. Bot. i, 202. Lindley, Fl. Med. 215. London, 

 Arboretum, i, 489 & t. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 288. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 215. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 379. Dietrich, 

 Syn. i, 497. Browne, Trees of America, 153. Scheele in Rcemer, Texas, 432. Gray, Genera, ii, 150, 1. 157; Manual N. States, 5 ed. 

 110. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 423. Parry in Owen's Rep. 610. Agardh, Theor. &. Syst. PI. t. 19, f. 7,8. Cooper in Smithsonian 

 Rep. 1858, 250. Darby, Bot. S. States, 254. Chapman. Fl. S. States, 66. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 

 107. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 353. Wood, Cl. Book, 283 ; Bot. & Fl. 71. Schnizlein, Icon. t. 250, f. 15-26. 

 Young, Bot. Texas, 195. Baillon, Hist. PI. iv, 395, f. 445, 446. Koch, Deudrologie, i, 566. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 8. 

 Hetnsley, Bot. Am.-Cent. i, 171. Burgess in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, vii, 95. 



Amyris elemifera, Linnsens, Spec. 2 ed. 295. St. Hilaire, Fam. Nat. i, 253. 

 P. mticifolia, Salisbury, Prodr. 68. 



HOP TREE. SHRUBBY TREFOIL. WAFER ASH. 



Ontario and New York (banks of the Niagara river), Pennsylvania southward to northern Florida, west to 

 Minnesota and the headwaters of the Canadian river ; through western Texas to the valley of the Mimbres river, 

 New Mexico (Bigelotc), and southward into northern Mexico. 



A small tree, sometimes 4 to 6 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter, or more often 

 reduced to a slender shrub ; shady, rocky hillsides. 



A variety with more or less pubescent leaves, not rare on the south Atlantic coast, and the common form of 

 western Texas, is 



var. mollis, Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 680. Engelmann & Gray in Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, v, 213. Torrey 

 in Marcey's Rep. 282. Gray in Smithsonian Contrib. iii, 31; Hall's PI. Texas, 5. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 71. Watson in 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xvii, 335. 



P. mollis, Curtis in Am. Jour. Sci. 2 ser. vii, 406; Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 107. Walpers, Ann. ii, 259. 

 Chapman, Fl. S. States, 67. Young, Bot. Texas, 196. 



