36 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



I. ligmtrina, Elliott, Sk. ii, 708 [not Jaequin]. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 429. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 187. Eaton & Wright, 

 Bot, 282. Darby, Bot. S. States, 123. ' 



f I. WatSOniana, Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 429. 



'VAT. ttiyrtifolia (only in low cypress swamps and ponds), Chapman, Fl. S. States, 269. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 755. 



I. myrtifolia, Walter, Fl. Caroliniaua, 214. Nouveau Duhamel, i, 10, t. 4. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 229. Poiret, Suppl. 

 iii, 65. Willdenow, Euum. Suppl. 8. Rffimer & Schultes, Syst. iii, 489. Link, Enum. 148. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 

 * 429. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 187. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 282. Darby, Bot. S. States, 426. Gray, Manual N. States, 



5 ed. 306. Maximowicz in Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, xxix, No. 3, 2(i. 



I. rosmarifolia, Lamarck, 111. i. 356. Persoon, Syn. i, 151. Poiret, Suppl. iii, <i.">. 



I. ligustrifolia, Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 19. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 187. Wood, Cl. Book, 497; Bot. & Fl. 207. 



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

 Bap-wood nearly white; specific gravity, 0.4806; asb, 0.91; that of var. myrtifolia heavier, nearly white; specific 

 gravity, 0.5873 ; ash, 0.90. 



35. Ilex Cassine, Walter, 



Fl. Caroliniana, 241. Aiton, Hort. Kew. i, 170, in part. James, Cat. 176; Long's Exped. ii, 294. Hooker, Jour. Bot. i, 202. Eaton, 

 Manual, 6 ed. 186. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 269. Cnrtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 59. Lesqnereux in 

 Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 373. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 208. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 306. Young, Bot. Texas, 373. Maximowicz 

 in Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, xxix, No. 3, 22. 



I. Cassine, [3. Linnseus, Spec. 1 ed. 125. 



Cassine Peragua, Linnaeus, Mant. ii, 220. Marshall, Arbustum, 26. Plenck, Icon. t. 239. 



Cassine Caroliniana, Lamarck, Diet, i, 652 



I. VOmitoria, Alton, Hort. Kew. i, 170; 2 ed. i, 278. Salisbury, Prodr. 70. Willdenow, Spec, i, 709. Enum. Suppl. 8. 

 B. S. Barton, <Joll. i, 36, 56. Nouveau Duhamel, i, 10. Persoou, Syn. i, 151. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 362. 

 Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. 41. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 118. Nuttall, Genera, i, 109. Rcemer & Schultes, Syst. iii, 491 ; 

 Mant. 333. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 14. Sprengel, Syst. i, 495. Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, ii, 173. Don, Miller's 

 Diet, ii, 17. Hooker, Jour. Bot. i, 202. Spach, Hist, Veg. ii, 430. Lindley, Fl. Med. 393. Dietrich, Syn. i, 555. 

 Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 518, f. 186. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 187. Eaton & Wright, Bot, 282. Griffith, Med. Bot. 433. 

 Browne, Trees of America, 169. Guibourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. iii, 544. 



I. ligustrina, Jaequin, Coll. iv, 105; Icon. Rar. ii, 9, t. 310 [not'Elliott]. Lamarck, 111. i, 356. 

 I. Floridana, Lamarck, 111. i, 356. 



I. Cassena, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 229. Poiret, Suppl. iii, 65. Rremer & Schultes, Syst. iii, 490. Elliott, Sk. ii, 681. 

 Darby, Bot. S. States 426. Wood, Cl. Book, 497. 



I. religiosa, Barton, Fl. Virginica, 66. 

 Cassine ramulosa, Rafinesque, Fl. Ludoviciana, 363. 

 Klerophyllus Cassine, Rafinesque, Med. Bot. ii, 8. 

 Hmetila ramulosa, Rafiuesque, Sylva Telluriana, 45. 

 Ageriff, Cassena, Rafinesque, Sylva Telluriana, 47. 

 Ageria geminata, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellnriana, 48. 



CASSENA. YATJPON. YOPON. 



Southern Virginia, southward, near the coast, to the Saint John's river and Cedar Keys, Florida, west along 

 the Gulf coast to southern Arkansas, and the valley of the Colorado river, Texas. 



A small tree, 6 to 8 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.15 meter in diameter, or more often a shrub, sending 

 up many slender stems and forming dense thickets ; sandy, moist soil, along ponds and streams, reaching its 

 greatest development in the river bottoms of eastern Texas. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, liable to check in drying ; medullary rays numerous, conspicuous ; color, 

 nearly white, becoming yellow with exposure, the sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.7270 ; ash, 0.87. 



The leaves possess powerful emetic properties, and were employed by the southern Indians, together perhaps 

 with those of J. Dahoon, in the preparation of their "black drink" (Am, Jour. Pharm. xliv, 217. U. S. Dispensatory, 

 14 ed. 1670. Nat. JMspensatory, 2 ed. 754). 



