40 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



44. Condalia obovata, Hooker, 



Icon. t. 287. Torrey & Gray, Fl. i, 685. Gray in Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 169; Genera, ii, 172, 1. 164 ; Smithsonian Contrib. iii,. 

 32; v, 27 ; Hall's PI. Texas, 5. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 47. Watson in Proc. Am. Acad. xvii, 336. 



BLUE WOOD. LOGWOOD. PURPLE HAW. 



Eastern and southwestern Texas, westward through southern New Mexico to southern Arizona; probably 

 extending into northern Mexico. 



A small tree, 6 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter, or often a shrub ; reaching 

 its greatest development along the streams of eastern Texas; one of the common "chaparral" plants of western 

 Texas, here forming dense, impenetrable thickets. 



Wood very heavy, hard, close-grained, liable to check in seasoning, containing many groups of largfr 

 irregularly-arranged open ducts ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color, light red, the sap-wood light yellow; 

 specific gravity, 1.1999; ash, 7.0:5. 



45. Rhamnus Caroliniana, Walter, 



Fl. Caroliniana, 101. Lamarck, 111. ii, 88; Diet, iv, 476. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 153. Nouveau Duhamel, iii, 47. Persoon. Syn.. 

 i, 239. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 166. Nuttall, Genera, i, 153. Roemer & Schultes, Syst. v, 285. Elliott, Sk. i, 289. De Candolle, 

 Prodr. ii, 26. Sprengel, Syst. i, 768. Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, ii, 174. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 32. Hooker, Jour. Bot. i, 

 202. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 262. Dietrich, Syn. i, 807. London, Arboretum, ii, 537. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 300. Eaton 

 & Wright, Bot. 390. Scheele in Rosiner, Texas, 432. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 50, t. 59 ; 2 ed. i, 198, t. 59. Darby, Bot. S. States, 269. 

 Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 354. Wood, Cl. Book, 219 ; Bot. & Fl. 77. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 610. Gray, Hall'ft 

 PI. Texas, 5. 



? Frangula fragillix, Rafinesquc, Fl. Ludoviciana, 320; Sylva Telluriana, 27. 

 Sarcomphalll8 Curolinianm, Rafinesquc, Sylva Telluriana, 29. 



Frangula Caroliniana, Gray, Genera, ii, 178, t. lor ; Manual N. States, 5 ed. 115. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 

 46. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 251.. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 92. Chapman, 

 Fl. S. States, 73. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 9. 



INDIAN OHEKRY. 



Long Island, New York, west along the valley of the Ohio river to southern Illinois, Missouri south of the 

 Meramec river, eastern Kansas, and the Indian territory, south to northern Florida (latitude 30), and through 

 the Gulf states to western Texas. 



A small tree, 6 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.20 to 0.30 meter in diameter, or in the Atlantic states- 

 generally a tall shrub; rich woods along streams r.nd river bottoms, reaching its greatest development in southern 

 Arkansas and eastern Texas. 



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

 the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.5462; ash, 0.64. 



The edible fruit sweet and agreeable. 



46. Rhamnus Californica, Eschscholtz, 



Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, x, 281 (Lintuea Litt.-Ber. 1828, 149. Presl, Rep. Bot. i, 197). Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 3fl. Torrey & Gray, 

 Fl. N. America, i, 263. Dietrich, Syn. i, 806. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 390. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 101. Hemsley, 

 Bot. Am.-Cent. i, 197. 



R, oleifolius, Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 123, t. 44. Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey, 136, 328. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. 

 America, i, 260. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 390. Bentham, Bot. Sulphur, 10 ; PI. Hartweg. 302. Durand in Jour. 

 Philadelphia Acad. 1855, 85. Carriere in Rev. Hort. xlvi, 354, f. 47-49. 



Undotropis oleifolia, Rafiuesque, Sylva Telluriana, 31. 



jR. laurifolius, Nuttall in Torrey & Gray, Fl. X. America, i, 260. Eatou & Wright, Bot. 390. 



Frangula Californica, Gray, Genera, ii, 178 ; Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 146. Torrey in Sitgreaves' Rep. 157 f 

 Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 74 ; Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 46 ; Bot. Wilkes Exped. 261. Newberry in Pacific R. R. 

 Rep. vi, 69. Bolander in Proc. California Acad. iii, 78. 



California, west of the Sierra Nevadas, from the valley of the upper Sacramento river southward to Santa 

 Barbara and fort Tejon. 



