CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 85 



Cratccgus spicata, Lamarck, Diet, i, 84. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 148. Nouveau Duhamel, iv, 132. Poiret, SuppL i, 292. 

 Mespilus CanadensM, var. obovalis, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 291. 



Pyrus OVttlis, Willdenow, Spec, ii, 1014 ; Berl. Baumz. 323. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 340. Schrank, PI. Labrador, 26. Bigelow, 

 Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 207. 



Aronia ovallS, Torrcy, Fl. U. S. 479 ; Compend. Fl. N. States, 203. Eaton, Manual, 6 cd. 29. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 135. 



A. ovalis, De Candolle, Prodr. ii,632. Meyer, PI. Labrador, 81. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i,202, in part. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 

 604. Beck, Bot. 112. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 85. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 876, f. 632. 



A. intermedia, Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 85. Wenzig in Linnaea, xxxiii, 118. 



A. oblongifolia, Roemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 147. 



A. spicata, Decaisne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. x, 135, t. 9, f. 5. 



Wood heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, close-grained, checking somewhat in seasoning, satiny, susceptible of 

 a good polish ; medullary rays very numerous, obscure ; color, dark brown often tinged with red. the sap-wood 

 much lighter ; specific gravity, 0.7838 ; ash, 0.55 ; the small fruit sweet and edible. 



NOTE. The closely allied Amelanchicr alnifolia, Nuttall, a low shrub, is widely distributed over the mountain ranges of the interior 

 Pacific region. 



HAMAMELACE^l. 



138. Hamamelis Virginica, Linnaeus, 



Spec. 2ed. 124. Marshall, Arbustum, 58. Du Roi, Harbk. i, 423. Wangenheim, Amer.89, t.29, f. 62. Lamarck, Diet, iii, 68; 111. i, 

 350, t. 88. Alton, Hort. Kew. i, 167 ; 2 ed. i, 275. Schkuhr, Handb. i, 88, t. 27. Willdenow, Spec, i, 701 ; Ennm. 171 ; Berl. Banmz. 

 172. Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. i, 100. Persoon, Syn. i, 150. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 29. Pnrsh. Fl. Am. Sept. i, 116. Nuttall, 

 Genera, i, 107. Nouveau Duhamel, vii, 207, t. 60. Elliott, Sk. i, 219. Reamer & Schultes, Syst. iii, 483. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 598. 

 Barton, Fl. N. America, iii, 21, t. 78. Torrey, Fl. U. S. 192; Compend. Fl. N. States, 86; Fl. N. York, i, 260. Guimpel, Otto <fc 

 Hayne, Abb. Holz. 95, t. 75. Sprengel, Syst. i, 491. Kafinesque, Med. Bot. i, 227, f. 45. De Candolle, Prodr. iv, 268. Hooker, Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. i, 275; Companion Bot. Mag. i, 48. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 396, f. 69. Beck, Bot. 152. Eaton, Manual 6 ed. 164. Spach, 

 Hist, Veg. viii, 79. Dietrich, Syn. i, 550. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 597. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 1007, f. 756, 757. 

 Eaton & Wright, Bot. 260. Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 63. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 416; 2 ed. ii, 473 & t. Darby, Bot. 8. 

 States, 328. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 98.Agardh, Theor. & Syst. PI. t. 13, f. 7. Schnizlein, Icon. 1. 167, f. 18-25, 27-29. 

 Gray in Am. Jour. Sci.2 ser. xxiv, 438; 3 ser. v, 144; Manual N. States, 5 ed. 173. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 157. Curtis in Eep. 

 Geological Surv. N. Carolina, iii, 105. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Eep. Arkansas, 362. Wood, Cl. Book, 375 ; Bot. & Fl. 120. 

 Engelmann in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. new ser. xii, 193. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 58. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 458. BaiUon in 

 Adansonia, x, 123; Hist. PI. iii, 389, f. 462-4G4. Young, Bot. Texas, 291. Maout & Decaisne, Bot. English ed. 408 & f. 



H. dioica, Walter, Fl. Cavoliniana, 255. Gnieliu, Syst. Veg. i, 281. 



H. androgyna, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 255. Gmelin, Syst. Veg. i, 282. 



H. corylifolia, Moench, Meth. 273. 



H. matrophylla, Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. i, 116. Poiret, Suppl. v, 698. Elliott, Sk. i, 220. Roemer & Schultes, Syst. iii, 483. 

 Rafinesque, Med. Bot, i, 230. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 164. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 396. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 261. 



Trilopus Virginiana, nigra, rotundifolia, and dentata, Rafinesque, New Sylva, 15-17. 



H. Virginiana, var. parvifolia, Nuttall, Genera, i, 107. Torrey, F1.U. S. 193; Compend. Fl. N. States, 87. Don, Miller 1 * 

 Diet, iii, 396. Beck, Bot. 152. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 597. 



H. parvifolia, Raliuesquc, Med. Bot. i, 230. 

 Trilopus parvifolia, Rafinesqne, New Sylva, 17. 



WITCH HAZEL. 



Northern New England and southern Ontario to Wisconsin, south through the Atlantic region to northern 

 Florida and eastern Texas. 



A small tree, exceptionally 7 to 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.37 meter in diameter, or more often 

 a tall shrub throwing up many stems from the ground ; common ; rich, rather damp woodlands, reaching its 

 greatest development in the region of the southern Alleghany mountains. 



