70 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



WILD ORANGE. MOCK ORANGE. WILD PEACH. 



North Carolina, south, near the coast, to bay Biscayne, Florida, and southern Alabama, west, along the Gulf 

 coast, to the valley of the Guadalupe river, Texas. 



A small tree, evergreen, 10 to 12 meters in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.30 meter in diameter ; 

 common and reaching its greatest development in the rich, light, deep soil of the bottoms of eastern Texas, here 

 often covering extensive tracts known as "peach brakes"; not common in the eastern Gulf states. 



Wood heavy, hard, strong, close-grained, checking badly in seasoning, susceptible of a good polish ; medullary 

 rays numerous, thin ; color, light reddish-brown, or, more rarely, rich dark brown, the sap-wood lighter ; specific 

 gravity, 0.8C88 ; ash, 0.41. 



Generally planted in the southern states as an ornamental and hedge plant; foliage, bark, and fruit contain 

 prnssic acid, the leaves, especially when partly withered, often proving fatal to animals browsing upon them. 



112. Prunus sphserocarpa, Swartz, 



Prodr. 81; Fl. lud. Occ. ii,927 [not Michaux]. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 937. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet. v,G66. Persoon, Syn. ii, 34. Don, 

 Miller's Diet, ii, 516. Schlechtendal in Liniuua, xiii, 87. Walpers, Rep. ii, 10. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 231. 

 Chapman, Fl. S. States, Suppl.620. 



, CerasUS sphcerocarpa, Loiseleur in Nouveau Duhamel, v, 4. Seriuge in De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 540. London, Arboretum ii, 



721. Bot. Mag. t. 3141. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 421. 



Semi-tropical Florida, western shores of bay Biscayne (Curtiss); in the West Indies. 



A small tree, in Florida not exceeding C meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.15 meter in diameter; high 

 rocky woods or, more rarely, along the borders of streams and ponds ; rare. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, checking badly in drying, containing many very small open ducts; layers 

 of annual growth and medullary rays obscure; color; light, clear red, the sap-wood pale yellow; specific gravity, 

 0.8998; ash, 0.87. 



113. Prunus ilicifolia, Walpere, 



Eep. ii, 10. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 43. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 63; Bot. Wilkes Exped. 285. Brewer & Watson, Bot. 

 California, i, 168; ii, 443. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. 



CerasUS ilicifolia, Nuttall in Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey, 340, t. 83. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 411. Nuttall, 

 Sylva, ii, 16, t. 47 ; 2 ed. i, 165, t. 47. Torrey in Emory's Rep. 139 ; Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 83. Paxton, Brit Fl. Garden, 

 iii, 44, f. 254. Walpers, Ann. iv, 654. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 259. Kellogg in Proc. California Acad. ii, 

 22. Bolauder in Proc. California Acad. iii, 79; iv, 22. London Garden, 1873, 131 & fig. 



LaurOCCraSUS ilicifolia, Rceiner, Syn. Mon. iii, 92. 



ISLAY. 



California, Coast ranges from San Francisco bay south to the southern boundary of the state, extending to 

 the western slopes of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains. 



A small tree, evergreen, often 9 to 12 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.60 meter in diameter, or when 

 distant from the coast often reduced to a low shrub. 



Wood very heavy, hard, strong, close-grained, checking in seasoning, satiny, susceptible of a beautiful polish, 

 containing many regularly -distributed rather small open ducts; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, bright 

 reddish-brown, the sap-wood much lighter; specific gravity, 0.9803; ash, 0.78; furnishing valuable fuel. 



114. Vauquelinia Torreyi, Watson, 



Proc. Am. Acad. xi, 147. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 169. Maximowicz in Act! Hort. St. Petersburg, v 1 , 237. Hemsley, Bot. 

 Am.-Cent. i, 370. 



Spiraea Californica, Torrey in Emory's Rep. 140. 



V. COrymbosa, Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 64 [not Correa]. 



Arizona, high mountains near the Gila (Emory), summits of the Santa Catalina mountains (Pringle, Lemmon) ; 

 in Sonora. 



A small tree in the Santa Catalina mountains, 4 to 6 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.20 meter in 

 diameter; dry slopes and rocky bluffs at 2,700 to 4,000 feet elevation, granitic soil; generally hollow and decayed. 



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

 numerous, thin; color, rich dark brown streaked with red, the sap-wood yellow; specific gravity, 1.1374; ash, 1.45. 



