58 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



FEIGOLITO. 



Matagorda bay, Texas, west to the mountains of New Mexico (Havard). 



A small tree, sometimes 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter, or often, especially 

 west of the San Antonio river, a tall shrub, rarely exceeding 2 meters in height, forming dense thickets ; borders 

 of streams, generally in a low, rather moist soil. 



Wood very heavy, hard, close-grained, compact, susceptible of a high polish; medullary rays numerous, thin; 

 color, orange streaked with red, the heavier sap-wood brown or yellow ; specific gravity, 0.9842 ; ash, 1.59 ; 

 furnishing valuable fuel. 



The seeds contain an exceedingly poisonous alkaloid, Sophoria (R. C. Wood in Philadelphia Med. Times, August 

 4, 1877. Rothrock in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, ii, 133. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 1333). 



84. Sophora affinis, Torrey & Gray, 



Fl. N. America, i, 390. Leaveuworth iu Am. Jour. Sci. 1 ser. ix, 130. Gray in Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 178; Hall's PI. 

 Texas, 7. Scheele in Roemer, Texas, 428. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 12. 



Styphnolobium affine, Walpers, Rep. i, 807. 



Arkansas, valley of the Arkansas river (Letterman) to the valley of the San Antonio river, Texas. 



A small tree, 5 to 7 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.15 to 0.25 meter in diameter; borders of streams 

 and prairies. 



Wood heavy, very hard, strong, coarse-grained, compact ; layers of annual growth clearly marked by several 

 rows of large open ducts; medullary rays thin, conspicuous; color, light red, the sap-wood bright, clear yellow; 

 specific gravity, 0.8509 ; ash, 0.73. 



Ink is occasionally made domestically from the resinous exudations of the pod. 



85. Gymnocladus Canadensis, Lamarck, 



Diet, i, 733 ; 111. Hi, 412, t. 823. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 241, t. 51. Willdenow, Spec, iv, 460; Enum. ii, 1019; Berl. Baumz. 169. 

 Persoon, Syn.ii,626. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii,250. Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2ed.v, 400. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii, 272, t. 23 ; N. 

 American Sylva.3 ed. i, 182, t. 50. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 304. Nuttall, Genera,ii,243. Hayne, Dend. F1.203. James in Long's 

 Exped. i, 138. Reichenbach, Mag. Bot. t. 40. Do Caudolle, Prodr. ii, 480. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 327. Torrey in Ann. Lye. N.York, 

 ii, 193 ; Compend. Fl. N. States, 376 ; Fl. N. York, i, 196 ; Emory's Rep. 407. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 166. Don, Miller's Dict.429. 

 Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 162. Beck, Bot. 93. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 89. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 256 & t. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. 

 America, i, 398. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 258. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 424. Walpers, Rep. i, 809. Browne, Trees of America, 

 218. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 251. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 358. Wood, Cl. Book, 300 ; Bot. & Fl. 83. 

 Engelmauu in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. new ser. xii, 190. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 145. Briot in Rev. Hort. 1870,436. Vasey, 

 Cat. Forest Trees, 12. BeU in Geological Rep. Canada, 1879-'80, 54 C . Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 63. Chapman, Fl. 

 S. States, Suppl. 618. 



Guilandina dioica, Linnaeus, Spec. 1 ed. 381. Marshall, Arbustum, 56. Aiton, Hort. Kew. ii, 56. James in Long's Exped. 

 i, 138. 



Hyperanthera dioica, Vahl, Symbol, i, 31. 



G. dioica, Koch, Dendrologie, i, 5. Baillon, Hist. PI. ii, 87, f. 52, 53. 



KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE. COFFEE NTTT. 



Conococheague creek, Franklin county, Pennsylvania (Porter) ; western New York, shores of Cayuga and 

 Seneca lakes, west through southern Ontario and southern Michigan to the valley of the Minnesota river, 

 Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, southwestern Arkansas, and the Indian territory, to about 

 longitude 96 west, south to middle Tennessee. 



A tree 25 to 33 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 0.90 meter in diameter; rich woods and bottoms; not 

 common. 



Wood heavy, not hard, strong, coarse-grained, durable in contact with the ground, liable to check iu drying, 

 easily worked, susceptible of a high polish ; layers of annual growth clearly marked by one or two rows of 

 open ducts; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, rich light brown tinged with red, the thin sap-wood lighter; 

 specific gravity, 0.6934; ash, 0.67; occasionally used in cabinet-making, for posts, rails, &c. 



The fresh leaves, macerated and sweetened, are used in Tennessee as a poison for house-flies; the seeds 

 formerly as a domestic substitute for cofi'ee. 



