CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 91 



FLOWERING DOGWOOD. BOX WOOD. 



Southern New England, southern Ontario, southern Minnesota, and through the Atlantic forests to latitude 28 

 50' in Florida, and the valley of the Brazos river, Texas. 



A small tree, 9 to 12 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.45 meter in diameter, or toward its northern 

 limits reduced to a low shrub; rich woods ; very common, especially at the south. 



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

 polish; medullary rays numerous, conspicuous; color, brown, changing in different specimens to shades of green 

 and red, the sap-wood lighter; specific; gravity, 0.8153; ash, 0.67; used in turnery, for wood engravings and the 

 bearings of machinery, hubs of wheels, barrel hoops, etc. 



The bark, especially of the root, in common with that of the other species of the genus, possesses bitter tonic 

 properties, and is used in decoctions, etc., in the treatment of intermittent and malarial fevers (Am. Jour. 

 Pharm. vii, 109. Maisch in Proc. Am. Pharm. Assoc. 315. U. S. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 352. Nat. Dispensatory. 2 ed. 

 4G7). 



152. Cornus Nuttallii, Audnbon, 



Birds, t. 467. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 652. Walpers, Rep. ii, 435. Bentham, PI. Hartwcg. 312. Nuttall, Sylva, iii, 51, t. 

 97; 2 ed. ii, 117, t. 97. Durand in Jour. Philadelphia Acad. 1855, 89. Torrey in Pacific E. R. Rep. iv, 94; Bot. Mex. Boundary 

 Survey, 71; Bot. Wilkes Exped. 326. Newberry iu Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 24, 75. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 259; 

 Pacific R. R. Rep. xii 2 , 29, 63. Lyall in Jour. Linnsean Soc. vii, 134. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. viii, 387. Brewer & Watson, 

 Bot. California, i, 274; ii, 452. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, !<>. Hall in Co.ilter's Bot. Gazette, ii, 88. Macoun in Geological Rep. 

 Canada, 1P75-76, 198. G. M. Dawsoii in Canadian Nat. new ser. ix, 331. 



C. florida, Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 277, in part. 



FLOWERING DOGWOOD. 



Vancouver's island and along the coast of southern British Columbia, through western Washington territory 

 and Oregon, and southward through the Coast ranges of California and along the western slope of the Sierra 

 Nevada to the San Bernardino mountains. 



A small, slender tree, sometimes 18 to 24 meters in height, with a trunk rarely 0.45 meter in diameter ; ascending 

 the Cascade mountains to 3,000 feet, and the San Bernardino mountains to from 4,000 to 5,000 feet elevation; 

 common; rich, rather damp soil, generally in the dense shade of coniferous forests. 



Wood heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, close-grained, compact, satiny, susceptible of a good polish; medullary 

 rays numerous, obscure; color, light brown tinged with 'red, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.7481; ash, 

 0.50 ; somewhat used in cabinet-making, for mauls, handles, etc. 



153. Nyssa capitata, Walter, 



Fl. Caroliniana, 253. Lamarck, Diet, iv, 508. Miehaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii, 257, t. 20 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. iii, 37, t. 113. 

 Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. v, 480. Poiret, Snppl. v, 740. Elliott, Sk. ii, 685. Hooker, Companion Bot. Mag. ii, 62. Eaton, Manual, 

 6 ed. 236. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 329. Spach, Hist. Veg. x, 464. Darby, Bot. S. States, 493. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 

 253. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 168. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 364. Wood, Cl. Book, 392 ; Bot. & Fl. 143. Koch, 

 Dendrologie, ii, 456. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 16. 



N. Ogeche, Marshall, Arbustum, 97. 



N. COCCinea, Bartram, Travels, 2 ed. 17. 



N. tomentosa, Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, iv, 508. 



N. candicans, Miehaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 259. Persoon, Syn. ii,614. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i, 37. Willdenow, Spec, iv, 

 1113. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 117. Poiret, Suppl.iv, 116. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 236; Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. v, 167. 

 Rcemer & Schultes, Syst. v, 557. Sprengel, Syst. i, 832. Dietrich, Syn. i, 879. London, Arboretum, iii, 1318, f. 1199. 

 Browne, Trees of America, 426. 



N. montana, Gicrtner, Fruct. iii, 201, t. 216. 



OGEECHEE LIME. SOUR TUPELO. GOPHER PLUM. 



Georgia, from the valley of the Ogeechee to the Saint Mary's river, west Florida (near Vernon, Mohr), and 

 in southern Arkansas. 



A tree 9 to 18 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.90 meter in diameter; deep swamps and river 

 bottoms ; rare and local. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, tough, rather coarse-grained, compact, unwedgeable, containing many regularly- 

 distributed open ducts; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, white, the sap-wood hardly distinguishable ; specific 

 gravity, 0.4G13 ; ash, 0.34. 



A conserve, under the name of " Ogeechee limes", is made from the large, acid fruit. 



