38 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



38. Cliftonia ligustrina, Banks, 



Ex. Gsertner f. Fruct. Suppl. 246, t. 225. Bartram, Travels, 2 ed. 31. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 256. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 

 92, t. 73 : 2 ed. ii, 39, t. 73. Planchon in Hooker's Jour. Bot. v, 255. Walpers, Rep. vi, 422. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1412. Schnizlein, 

 Icon. t. 240**, f. 5, 7-10, 20. Cooper in Smithsonian Eep. 1858, 251. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 273. Porcher, Resources S. 

 Forests, 130. Baillon in Adansouia, i, 202, t. 4, f. 3-6. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 18. 



Mylocaryum ligustrinum, Willdenow, Enum. i, 454. Bot. Mag. t. 1625. Lamarck, 111. iii, 616, t. 952, f. 1. Pursh, Fl. 

 Am. Sept. i, 302, t. 14. Poiret, Suppl. iv, 41. Elliott, Sk. i, 508. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 231. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 

 323. Darby, Fl. S. States, 417. Wood, Cl. Book, 493; Bot. & Fl. 205. 



TITI. IKON WOOD. BUCKWHEAT TEEE. 



Valley of the Savannah river, Georgia, southward to the Chattahoochee region of west Florida, westward along 

 the Gulf coast to the valley of the Pearl river, Louisiana. 



A small tree, sometimes 12 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.40 meter in diameter, or toward its southern 

 limits in Florida reduced/to a shrub; margins of pine-barren ponds and streams. 



Wood heavy, soft, not strong, close grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, brown tinged 

 with red, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.6249; ash, 0.42; largely used as fuel, burning with a clear flame. 



CELASTRACE.E. 



39. Euonymus atropurpureus, jacquin, 



Hort. Vind. ii, 155, t. 120. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 573 ; 111. ii, 98. Aitou, Hort. Kew. i, 274 ; 2 ed. ii, 29. Willdenow, Spec, i, 1132 ; Enum. i, 

 256. Michaux.Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 155. Persoon, Syn. i,243. Nouveau Dnhamel, iii, 26. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 356. Pursh, Fl. 

 Am. Sept. i. 168. Tnrpiu, Diet. Sci. Nat. xvii, 532, t. 272. Eaton, Manual, 28 ; 6 ed. 140. Nuttall, Genera, 155. Rffirner & Schultes, 

 Syst. v, 466. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 24. Elliott, Sk. i, 293. Do Candolle, Prodr. ii, 4. Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, ii, 173 ; Fl. U. S. 

 261; Compend. Fl. N. States, 120; Fl. N. York, i, 141; Nicollet's Rep. 147. Sprengel, Syst. i, 788. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 5. 

 Beck, Bot. 72. Hooker, Jour. Bot. i, 201. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 405. Rafinesque, New Fl. 60. London, Arboretum, ii, 499, f. 167. 

 Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 257. Dietrich, Syn. i, 819. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 240. Griffith, Med. Bot. 219, f. 112. Gray, 

 Genera, ii, 188; Manual N. States, 5 e<i. 110. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 423. Parry in Owen's Rep. 610. Darby, Bot. S. States, 

 268. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 48. Baillou in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, v, 314. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 76. Curtis in Rep. 

 Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 102. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 354. Wood, Cl. Book, 289; Bot. & Fl. 76. 

 Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 129. Engelmaun in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. new ser. xii, 187. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 629. Young, 

 Bot. Texas, 205. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 9. 



E. Caroline.nsifl, Marshall, Arbustum, 43. 



E. latifolius, Marshall, Arbnstnm, 44 [not Aiton]. Agardh, Theor. & Syst. PI. t. 22, f. 4. 



BURNING BUSH. WAHOO. SPINDLE TREE. AREOW WOOD. 



Western New York, west to the valley of the upper Missouri river (Fort Union), Montana, southward to northern 

 Florida, southern Arkansas, and eastern Kansas. 



A small tree, rarely 6 to 8 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 meter in diameter, or more often a shrub 2 to 3 

 meters in height; low, rich woods, reaching its greatest development west of the Mississippi river. 



Wood heavy, very close-grained, liable to check badly in seasoning; medullary rays hardly discernible; color, 

 white tinged with orange ; specific gravity, O.C592 ; ash, 0.58. 



Walioo bark, a mild but rather uncertain purgative, is used by herbalists in the form of decoctions, tinctures, 

 fluid extracts, etc. (Am. Jour. Pharmacy, xx, 80. U. S. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 402. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 559). 



40. Myginda pallens, Smith, 



Rees' Cycl. xxv, No. 4. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 13. Dietrich, Syn. i, 554. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 146. Chapman in 

 Coulter's Bot. Gazette, iii, 3 ; Fl. S. States, Suppl. 612. 



Semi-tropical Florida, Upper Metacombe Key ; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, rarely exceeding 4 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 meter in diameter. 



Wood very heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact, satiny ; layers of annual growth and numerous medullary 

 rays hardly distinguishable; color, dark brown or nearly black, the thick sap-wood lighter brown tinged with red; 

 specific gravity, 0.9048 ; ash, 3.42. 



