CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 99 



171. Rhododendron maximum, Linnaeus, 



Spec. 1 ed. 391. Marshall, Arlmstum, 127. Gtertuer, Fruct. i, 304, t. 63, f. 6. Wangenheim, Amer. 63, t. 22, f. 49. Alton, Hort. Kew. 

 ii, 67; 2 ed. iii, 50. Moenrh, Meth. 45. Lamarck, Diet, vi, 365; 111. ii, 44H, t. 364, f. 1. B. S. Barton, Coll. i, 18. Willdenow, 

 Spec, ii, 606; Enum. '451; Berl. Bauin/. 357. Xouveau Duliamel, ii, 141. Michanx, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 259. Schkiihr, Handb. 362. 

 Persoon, Syn. i, 478. Desfoutaines, Hist. Arb. i, 221. Bot. Mag. t. 951. Michanx f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 144, t. 4; N.American 

 Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 64, t. 68. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 297. Eaton, Manual, 47 ; 6 ed. 301. Nuttall, Genera, i, 268. Bigelow, Med. Bot. 

 iii, 101, t. 51 ; Fl. Boston. 3 rd. 17b. Elliott, Sk. i, 483. Hayue, Dend. Fl. 57. Torrey, Fl. U. S. i, 426 ; Compend. Fl. N. States, 184. 

 Spreugel, Syst. ii, 292. Audubon, Birds, t. 103. Beck, Bot. 220. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 843. London, Arboretum, ii, 1134, f. 

 932. De Candolle, Prodr. vii, 722. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 43. Spach, Hist. Veg. ix, 503. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1404. Eaton & 

 Wright, Bot. 391. Browne, Trees of America, 359. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 384 ; 2 ed. ii, 435 & t. Griffith, Med. Bot. 428. 

 Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 171. Darby, Bot. S. States, 421. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 253. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 

 265. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 97. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 373. Wood, Cl. Book, 

 491 ; Bot. & Fl. 204. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 380. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 300 ; Syn. Fl. N. America ii 1 , 42. Koch, 

 Dendrologie, ii, 169. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 17. 



B.prOCerum, Salisbury, Prodr. 287. 



R. maximum, var. roseum, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 297. Elliott, Sk.i,484. 



B. maximum, var. album, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 297. Elliott, Sk. i, 484. 



B. maximum, var. purpureum, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 297. Elliott, Sk. i, 484. 



B. purpureum, Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 843. London, Arboretum, ii, 1134. Dietrich, Syn, ii, 1404. 



B. Purshii, Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 843. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 1135. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1404 (var. album, Pursh, I. c.). 



GREAT LATJEEL. ROSE BAY. 



Nova Scotia and the northern shores of lake Erie, south through Kew England, New York, and along the 

 Alleghany mountains to northern Georgia. 



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

 often a tall, straggling shrub; at the north in cold swamps; rare; very common and reaching its greatest 

 development in the southern Alleghany mountains, steep, rocky banks of streams, etc.; never on limestone. 



Wood heavy, hard, strong, brittle, close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, light clear 

 brown, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.6303; ash, 0.36; occasionally used in turnery for the handles 

 of tools, etc., and a possible substitute for box-wood in engraving. A decoction of the leaves is occasionally used 

 domestically in the treatment of rheumatism, sciatica, etc. 



MYRSINACE^. 



172. Myrsine Rapanea, Roemer & Schultes, 



Syet. iv, 509. Don, Miller's Diet, iy, 10. Dietrich, Syu. i, 618. A. De Candolle, Prodr. viii, 97. Miquel in Martins, Fl. Brasil. ix, 

 307, t. 50-52. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America ii 1 , 65. 



Bapanea Cfuyanensis, Aublet, Gnian.i, 121, t. 46. Swartz, Obs. 51; Fl. Ind. Occ. i, 262. Lamarck, 111. ii, 48, t. 122, f. 1. 



Samara pentandra, Swartz, Obs. 51 ; Fl. Ind. Occ. i, 262 [not Aitou]. 



Samara floribunda, Willdenow, Spec, i, 6ti5. Lamarck, 111. ii, 46, t. 122, f. 1. 



Caballeria coriacea, Meyer, Prim.Fl. Esseq. 118. 



M. Floridana, A. De Caudolle in Trans. Linnrean Soc. xvii, 107; Prodr. viii, 98. Dietrich, Syn. i, 98. Chapman, Fl. S. 

 States, 277. 



M. Jioribunda, Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 393. 



Semi-tropical Florida, Indian river southward to the southern keys ; through the West Indies to Brazil. 



A small tree, in Florida rarely exceeding 8 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.15 meter in diameter, or 

 often a shrub ; borders of ponds and fresh-water creeks ; in the West Indies much larger. 



Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, very conspicuous; color, brown 

 tinged with red and beautifully striped with the darker medullary rays, the sap-wood hardly distinguishable; 

 specific gravity, 0.8341 ; ash, 0.81. 



