CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 69 



WILD CHEERY. 



Apache and Guadalnpc mountains, Texas, west through southern New Mexico and Arizona to the southern 

 slopes of the San Francisco mountains; southward through northern New Mexico, and in Peru. 



A small tree, in the United States, rarely 12 meters in height, with a trunk often 0.30 meter in diameter ; 

 bottoms of canons and mountain valleys, generally between 5,000 aud 7,000 feet elevation. 



Wood heavy, moderately hard, close-grained, compact; medullary rays very numerous, thin; color, brown, or 

 often bright, clear red, the sap-wood nearly white; specific gravity, 0.7879 ; ash, 0.20. 



110. Prunus demissa, Walpors, 



Kep. ii, 10. Dietrich, Syu. iii, 43. Benthaui, PI. Hartweg. 307. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 63. Watson in King's Rep. v, 80 ; 

 PI. Wheeler, 8. Porter in Hayden's Rep. 1871, 481. Coulter in Hayden's Rep. 1872, 764. Rothrock, PI. Wheeler, 37. Braudegee in 

 Hayden's Rep. 1875, 236. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 167. Vasey, Cat, Forest Trees, 13. Hall in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, 

 ii, 86. Macoun in Geological Rep. Canada. 1875-76, 194. Hemsley, Bot. Am. -Cent, i, 368. 



Cerasus serotina, Hooker, Fl. Bur. -Am. i, 169, iii parr. 



Cerasus demissa, Nuttall in Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 411. Gray in Mem. Am. Acad. new ser. iv 1 , 40. Durand in 

 Jour. Philadelphia Acad. ia r >5, 87. Torrey in Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 83. Newberry in Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 73. Cooper 

 in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 259 ; Pacific R. R. Rep. xii 2 , 59. 



Padus demissa, Rremer, Syn. Mon. iii, 87. 



P. Virginiana, var. demissa, Torrey, Bot. Wilkes Exped. 284. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 381. 



WILD CHERRY. 



Vancouver's island east to the western slopes of the Rocky mountains of Montana, south through the Pacific 

 region; in Sonora. . 



A small tree, sometimes 7 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.45 meter in diameter, or more often a 

 low shrub ; reaching its greatest development in the rich valleys of southern Oregon and northern California, near 

 the coast; in southern California, and east of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges, a low shrub confined to high, 

 mountain valleys. 



Wood heavy, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, conspicuous ; color, light 

 brown, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.6951 ; ash, 0.50. 



111. Prunus Caroliniana, Aiton, 



Hort. Kew. ii, 163; 2 ed. iii, 196. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 987. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 667. Persoon, Syn. ii, 34. Desfontaines, Hist. 

 Arb. ii, 203. Nuttall, Genera,!, 302. Sprengel, Neue Entdeck. i, 304; Syst. ii, 478. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 71. Elliott, Sk. i, 540. 

 Audubon, Birds, t. 159, 190. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 286. Schlechtendal in Linn&a, xiii, 89. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 43. Chapman, 

 Fl. S. States, 120. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 57. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 103. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 124. 

 Yonng, Bot. Texas, 252. Gray, Hall's PI. Texas, 9. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. 



P. Carolina, Miller, Diet. Du Roi, Harbk. ii, 198. 

 P. serratifolia, Marshall, Arbnstum, 114. . 

 P. Lusitanica, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 146. 



Cerasus Caroliniana, Michanx, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 285. Nouveau Duhamel, v, 5. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 156, t. 7; 

 N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 150, t. 89. Seringe in De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 540. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 516. Spach, 

 Hist. Veg. i, 420. Penn. Cycl. vi, 432. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 720, f. 423. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 411. 

 Eaton & Wright, Bot. 190. Browne, Trees of America, 272. Darby, Bot. S. States, 299. Griffith, Med. Bot. 291. 

 Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 252. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 171. Wood, Cl. Book, 326. 



P. sempervirens, Willdenow, Enum. Suppl. 33. 



fBumelia serrata, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 155. Rcemer & Schnltes, Syst. iv, 498. 



fAchras serrata, Poiret, Suppl. v, 36. 



Leptocarpa Caroliniana, Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 18; 2ed. i, 167. 



Ghimanthus amygdalinus, Rafinesque, Fl. Ludoviciana, 159. 



Laurocera&m Garoliniana, Roemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 90. 



