96 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



163. Guettarda elliptica, Swartz, 



Prodr. 59 ; Fl. Ind. Occ. i, 634. Lamarck, 111. ii, 218. Persoon, Syn. i, 200. Poiret, Suppl. ii, 859. Rcemer & Schultes, Syst. iv, 4*12. De 

 Candolle,Prodr. iv, 457. Dietrich, Syn. i, 787. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 551. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N.America, ii, 35. Grisebach, PI. 

 British West Indies, 332. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America, i 2 , 30. 



G. Blodgettii, Shuttleworth in herb. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 178. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 17. 



Semi-tropical Florida, ou the southern keys ; through the West Indies. 



A small tree, 4 to 7 meters in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.20 meter in diameter. 



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

 numerous scattered small open ducts; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, light brown tinged with red; 

 peciflc gravity, 0.8337 ; ash, 1.05. 



ERICACEJ5. 



164. Vaccinium arboreum, Marshall, 



Arbnetum, 157. Michonx, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 230. Persoou, Syn. i, 479. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i, 270. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 285. 

 Nuttall, Genera, i, 263. Elliott, Sk. i, 495. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 853. London, Arboretum, ii, 1159. De Candolle, Prodr. vii, 

 567. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1264. Darby, Bot. 8. States, 414. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 1885. Walpera, Ann. ii, 1096. Chapman, Fl. S. 

 States, 259. Wood, Cl. Book, 482; Bot. & Fl. 198. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Eep. Arkansas, 373. Young, Bot. Texas, 369. 

 Gray, Hall's PI. Texas, 15; Syn. Fl. N. America, ii',20. Vasey.Cat. Forest Trees, 71. 



V. mucronatum, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 139 [not Linnaeus]. 



V. diffusum, Aitou.Hort. Kew. ii, 356. Bot. Mag. t. 1607. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 96. 



Batodendron arboreum, Nuttall in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 2ser. viii,261; Sylva, iii, 43; 2 ed. ii.lll. 



FARKI.EBEEET. 



North Carolina, south near the coast to Hernando county, Florida, through the Gulf states, and from southern 

 Illinois and southern Missouri south through Arkansas and eastern Texas to the shores of Matagorda bay. 



A small tree, 7 to 9 meters in height, with a trunk rarely 0.25 meter in diameter, or toward its northern 

 limits often reduced to a low shrub; very common throughout the pine belt of the Gulf states along the larger 

 ponds and streams, in moist, sandy soil, and reaching its greatest development in eastern Texas, near the coast. 



Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact, liable to twist in drying, satiny, susceptible of a beautiful 

 polish ; medullary rays numerous, broad, conspicuous ; color, light brown tinged with red, the sap-wood hardly 

 distinguishable; specific gravity, 0.7610; ash, 0.39; somewhat used in turnery in the manufacture of small 

 handles, etc. 



165. Andromeda ferruginea, Walter, 



Fl. Caroliniana, 138. Alton, Hort. Kew. ii, 67 ; 2 ed. iii, 52. Willdenow, Sp. ii, 609. Mlchaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 252. Nouveau Duhamel, 

 i, 190. Ventenat, Hort. Malmaison, 80, t. 80. Persoon, Syn. i, 480. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i, 257. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 292. 

 Elliott, Sk.i, 489. Darby, Bot. S. States, 420. -Chapman, Fl. S. States, 263. Wood, Cl. Book, 488; Bot. & FL 202. Gray, Syn. Fl. 

 N. American 1 , 33. 



A. rhomboid alis, Nouveau Duhamel, i, 192. 

 A.ferruglnca, var. arborcsctns, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i,252. 

 A. ferruginea, var. frulicosa, Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. i,252. 

 A. rigida, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 292. Loddiges, Bot, Cab. t. 430. 



Lyonin ferruginea, Nuttall, Genera, i, 266. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 830. London, Arboretum, ii, 1109. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 

 1399. De Candolle, Prodr. vii, fi()0. Koch. Dendrologie, ii, 122. 



Lyonia rigida, Nnttall, Genera, i,26C. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 830. De Candolle, Prodr, vii, 600. 



