CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 87 



MANGROVE. 



Semi-tropical Florida, Mosquito inlet and Cedar Keys to the southern keys ; delta of the Mississippi river 

 and coast of Texas ; southward through the West Indies and tropical America ; now widely naturalized throughout 

 the tropics of the old world (A. De Candolle, Geog. Bot. ii, 772). 



A tree 12 to 18, or, exceptionally, 27 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.60 meter in diameter, or more 

 commonly not exceeding 4 to 7 meters in height ; low saline shores, reaching in the United States its greatest 

 development on bay Biscayue and cape Sable ; south of latitude 29, bordering with almost impenetrable thickets 

 the coast of the Florida peninsula, ascending the rivers for many miles, especially those flowing from the Everglades, 

 and entirely covering many of the southern keys. 



Wood exceedingly heavy, hard and strong, close-grained, checking in drying, satiny, susceptible of a beautiful 

 polish, containing many evenly-distributed rather small open ducts; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, dark 

 reddish brown streaked with lighter brown, sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 1.1617; ash, 1.82; furnishing 

 valuable fuel ; not greatly affected by the teredo, and used for piles. 



COMBRETACEJ;. 



l4l. Conocarpus erecta, Linnaeus, 



Spec. 1 ed. 176. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 96; 111. i, 126, f. 1. Jacquin, Amer. t. 78. Gsertner, Fruct. ii, 470, t. 177, f. 3. Swartz, Obs'. 79. 

 Willdenow, Sp. i, 994. Alton, Hort. Ke-sv. 2 ed. i, 381. Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. 47. De Candolle, Prodr. iii, 16. Decourtilz, Fl. 

 Med. Antilles, vi, 68, t. 399. Spach, Hist. Veg. iv, 304. Torrey & Gray, Fl. K. America, i, 485. Nuttall, Sylva, i, 113, t. 33 ; 2 ed. 

 i, 128, t. 33. Kichard, Fl. Cuba, 526. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 264. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 136. Grisebach, Fl. British 

 West Indies, 277. Eichler in Martins, Fl. Brasil. xiv 2 , 101, t. 35, f. 2. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 15. 



BUTTON WOOD. 



Semi-tropical Florida, cape Canaveral to the southern keys, west coast, Tampa bay to cape Sable ; through the 

 West Indies to Brazil. 



A low tree, often 8 or, exceptionally, 15 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.60 meter in 

 diameter ; common and reaching its greatest development in the United States on Lost Man's river, north of cape 

 Sable; or reduced to a low under shrub (var. procumbens, De Candolle, l. c. Eichler, l. c.; C. procumbens, Linnaeus, Spec. 

 1 ed. 177. Jacquin 1. c. 79, t. 52, f. 2. G?ertner, 1. c. iii, 205, f. 4 Grisebach, I. c. ; C. acutifolia, Willdenow in Kramer & Schultes, 

 Syst. v, 574). 



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

 rays numerous, obscure ; color, dark yellow brown, the sap -wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.9900; ash, 0.32; burning 

 lowly like charcoal, and highly valued for fuel. 



142. Laguncularia racemosa, Gaertner f. 



Fruct. Suppl. 209, t. 217. De Candolle, Prodr. iii, 17. Spach, Hist. Veg. iv, 305. Nuttall, Sylva, i, 117, t. 34 ; 2 ed. i, 132, t. 34. Bentham, 

 Bot. Sulphur, 14, 92. Richard, Fl. Cuba, 527. Eichler in Martins, Fl. Brasil. xiv 2 , 102, t. 35, f. 3. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 

 1858, 264. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 136. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 276. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 15. Baillon, Hist. PI. 

 vi, 278. 



Conocarpus racemosa, Linnajus, Spec. 2 ed. 251 ; Syst. 181. Jacquin, Amer. 80, t. 53. Swartz, Obs. 79. Willdenow, Spec. 

 i,995. 



COmmutata, Sprengel, Syst. ii, 332. 

 Bucida Buceras, Vellozo, Fl. Flum. iv, t. 87 [not Linnaeus]. 

 L. glabrifolia, Presl, Reil. Hamk, ii, 22. Walpers, Rep. ii, 63. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 136. 



WHITE BUTTON WOOD. WHITE MANGKOVE. 



Semi-tropical Florida, cape Canaveral to the southern keys, west coast, Cedar Keys to cape Sable; through 

 the West Indies and tropical America ; coast of tropical Africa. 



A small tree, sometimes 6 or, exceptionally, 22 meters in height (Shark river, Florida, Curtiss), with a trunk 

 0.30 to 0.60 meter in diameter, or toward its northern limits reduced to a low shrub ; very common ; saline shores 

 of lagoons and bays. 



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

 rays numerous, obscure ; color, dark yellow-brown, the sap-wood much lighter; specific gravity, 0.7137; -ash, 1.62. 



