68 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



108. Prunus serotina, Ehrbart, 



Beitr. iii,20. WilldenoW, Spec, ii, 988; Enum. 517; Berl. Baumz. 301. Persoon, Syn. ii, 34. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 204. Alton, 

 Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 196. Eaton, Manual, 54 ; 6 ed. 284. Nuttall, Genera, i, 302. Barton, Compend. Fl. Philadelph. 54. Guimpel, 

 Otto & Hayne, Abb. Holz. 45, t. 37. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 70. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 478. Nees, PI. Neuwied, 9. Hooker f. in Trans. 

 Linuiciin Soc. xxii 2 , 327. Curtis in Eep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 56. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Eep. Arkansas, 

 358. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 102. Engelmann in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. now ser. xii, 190. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 120. Gray, Manual 

 N. States, 5 ed. 149 ; Hall's PI. Texas, 9. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 122. Torrey, Bot. Wilkes Exped. 284. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 

 2 ed. ii, 515 & t. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 167. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. Bentley & Trimen, Med. PI. ii, 97, t. 

 97. Sears in Bull. Essex Inst. xiii, 176. Bell in Geological Eep. Canada, 179-'80, 54 C . Eidgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 66. 



P. Virginiana. Miller, Diet. No. 3 [not Linnseus]. Du Eoi, Obs. Bot. 12; Harbk. ii, 191. Wangenheim, Amer.34, t. 14. 

 Medicus, Bot. Beobacht. 1782, 345. Marshall, Arbustum, 112. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 146. Aiton, Hort. Kew. ii, 

 163. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 664. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 329. Elliott, Sk. i, 540. Torrey, Fl. U. S. 467; 

 Compend. Fl. N. States, 189. Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 204. 



CeraSUS Virginiana, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 285. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 151, t. 6 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 147, 

 t. 88. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 169 (excl. syn.). Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 515. Beck, Bot. 97. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 2 

 ed. 289. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 710, f. 418. Browne, Trees of America, 268. 



CeraSUS Serotina, Loiseleur in Nouveau Duhamel, v, 3. Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 540. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 416. 

 Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 410. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 712, f. 419 &t. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 189. Torrey, 

 Fl. N. York, i, 196; Pacific R. E. Eep. vii, 11. Penn. Cycl. vi, 432. Carson, Med. Bot. i, 41, t. 35. Griffith, Med. Bot. 

 288. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 1 ed. 453. Gray, Manual N. States, 1 ed. 115 ; Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 

 186. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 75. Darby, Bot. S. States, 299. Cooper in Smithsonian Eep. 1858, 252. Porcher, 

 Eesources S. Forests, 169. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 425. Wood, Cl. Book, 326. Bolander in Proc. California 

 Acad. iii, 79. 



P. cartilaginea, Lehmann, Ind. Seui. Hamburg, 1833. 

 Padus serotina, Agardh, Theor. & Syst. PI. t. 14, f. 8. 

 Padus Virginiana, Ecemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 86. 

 Padus cartilaginea, Reamer, Syn. Mon. iii, 86. 



WILD BLACK CHERRY. RUM CHERRY. 



Southern Ontario, southward through the Atlantic forests to Matanzas inlet and Tampa bay, Florida, west to 

 the valley of the Missouri river, Dakota, eastern Kansas, the Indian territory, and the valley of the upper San 

 Antonio River, Texas. 



A tree 18 to 30 meters in height, with a trunk 0.90 to 1.20 or, exceptionally, 1.50 meter in diameter; rich, 

 generally elevated woodlands; common and reaching its greatest development on the western slopes of the 

 Alleghany mountains from West Virginia southward ; not common and of small size in the Gulf region and 

 Texas 



Wood light, hard, strong, close, straight-grained, compact, easily worked ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; 

 color, light brown or red, growing darker with exposure, the thin sap-wood yellow; specific gravity, 0.5822; ash, 

 0.15; largely used and esteemed in cabinet work, interior finish, etc., and now becoming scarce. 



The bark contains a bitter tonic principle, and infused with cold water generates a small percentage of 

 hydrocyanic acid ; employed as a tonic and sedative in cases of pulmonary consumption in the form of cold 

 infusions, sirups, and fluid extracts (Proc. Am, Phar. Assoc. xxiii, 209. Globley in Jour. Pharm. et Ohimie, xv, 40. 

 Ouibourt, Hist. Drogues, 1 ed. iii, 317. Pharm. Jour. 3 ser. iv, 44. Fluckiger & Hanbury, Pharmocographia, 224. 

 U. 8. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 749. Nat. Dispensatory, 2ed. 1177) ; the bitter fruit used domestically in the preparation 

 of cherry brandy. 



NOTE. The closely-allied P. Virginiana of the north Atlantic region, a tall ahrub, sometimes 6 to 8 meters in height, does not 

 assume arborescent habit. 



109. Prunus Capuli, Cavanilles, 



Sprengel, Syst. ii, 477. Schlechtendal in Limisca, xiii, 69, 404. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 123. Hemsley, Bot. Am. -Cent, i, 367. 

 Watson in Proc. Am. Acad. xvii, 352. 



CeraSUS Capollin, De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 539. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 515. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 713, f. 420. Bentham, 

 PI. Hartweg. 10. Lindley, Fl. Med. 232. Penn. Cycl. vi, 432. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 412. Gray in 

 Smithsonian Contrib. v, 54. 



CeraSUS Capuli, Seringe in De Caudolle, Prodr. ii, 541. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 516. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 422. 



P. Capollin, Zuccarini in Abhandl. Acad. Munich, ii, 345, t. 8. Rosmer, Syn. Mon. iii, 87. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary 

 Survey, 62. Rusby in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, ix, 53. 



P. Canadensis, Mocino & Sesse", PI. Mex. Icon. ined. 



