CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 113 



FRINGE TREE. OLD MAN'S BEARD. 



Lancaster county and the banks of the Brandy wine, Chester county, Pennsylvania, south to Tampa bay, Florida, 

 and through the Gulf states to southern Arkansas and the valley of the Brazos river, Texas. 



A small tree, 6 to 10 meters in height, with a truuk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter; generally along streams in 

 low, rich soil ; very common in cultivation 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact; layers of annual growth marked by several rows of large open 

 ducts, connected as in that of Bitmelia by branching groups of similar ducts; medullary rays numerous, obscure; 

 color, light brown, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, O.G372; ash, 0.51. 



A decoction of the tonic and anti-periodic bark of the root sometimes employed in the treatment of intermittent 

 fevers (Am. Jour. Pharm. xliv, 398. U. 8. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 1012). 



201. Osmanthus Americanus, Bontham & Hooker, 

 Genera, ii, 667. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America, ii', i,78. 



Olea Americana, Linnaeus, Mant. 24. Marshall, Arbustum, 98. Lamarck, Diet, iv, 543; 111. i, 28. Alton, Hort. Kew. 1, 

 14; 2 ed. i,22. Willdenow, Spec, i, 45 ; Enum. Hi. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii,222. Vahl, Enum.i, 41. Persoon,Syn.i, 

 9. Desfontaiues, Hist. Arb. i. 112. Nouveau Dnliamel, v, 67. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 50, t. 6; N. American 

 Sylva, ii, 3 ed. 128, t. 86. Pursh. Fl. Aui. Sept. i, 7. Rromer & Schultes, Syst. i, 70. Kafinesque, Fl. Ludoviciana, 38. 

 Nuttall, Genera, i, 5. Elliott, Sk. i, f>. Sprengel, Syst. i, 34. Groom in Am. Jour. Sci. 1 ser. xxvi, 315. Dietrich, Syn. 

 1,37. Don, Miller's Diet. iv,48. Spach, Hist. Veg. viii, 267. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 239. Dietrich, Syn. i, 37. Eaton 

 & Wright, Bot. 333. A. De Caudolle, Prodr. viii, 286. Browne, Trees of America, 381. Darby, Bot. S. States, 429. 

 Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858,253. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 369. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, 

 iii, 57. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 382. Wood,Cl. Book, 599; Bot. & Fl. 276. Porcher, Resoxirces S. 

 Forests, 493. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 401. Young, Bot. Texas, 451. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 20. 



DEVIL WOOD. 



Southern Virginia, south to cape Canaveral and Tampa bay, Florida, and through the Gulf states to eastern 

 Louisiana, near the coast. 



A small tree, 10 to 15 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.30 meter in diameter; borders of streams 

 and pine-barren swamps, in moist, rich soil. 



Wood heavy, very hard and strong, close-grained, unwedgeable, difficult to work, containing many radiating 

 groups of open cells parallel to the thin, obscure, medullary rays ; color, dark brown, the thick sap-wood light 

 brown or yellow ; specific gravity, 0.8111 ; ash, 0.46. 



BORRAGINACE^E. 



202. Cordia Sebestena, 



Spec. 1 ed. 190. Jacqnin, Amer. t. 42. Lamarck, 111. i, 421, t. 96, f. 1. Willdenow, Spec, i, 1073; Enum. 248. Andrews, Bot. Rep. iii, 

 157, 1. 157. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, vii, 45. Persoon, Syn. i, 166. Trattinick, Archiv. t. 354. Roemer & Schultes, Syst. iv, 452. 

 Sprengel, Syst. i, 649. Bot. Mag. t. 794. Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. ii, 8. Descourtilz, Fl. Antilles, iv, 205, t. 277. Chamisso in Linnsea, 

 vi, 755. Audubou, Birds, 1. 177. Don, Miller s Diet, iv, 375. Dietrich, Syn. i, 611. Nuttall, Sylva, iii, 81, 1. 106; 2 ed. ii, 145, 1. 106. 

 Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 265. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 478. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America, ii 1 , 180. 



? G. juglandifolia, Jacquin, Amer. t. 43. 



C. spetiosa, Willdenow in Reemer & Schultes, Syst. iv, 799. A. De Camlolle, Prodr. ix, 476. 



Sebestena scabra, Rafinesque, Sylva Telluriana, 38. 



GEIGER TREE. 



Semi-tropical Florida, on the southern keys; rare; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, sometimes 8 meters in height, with a trunk 0.00 to 0.08 meter in diameter; rich hummock 

 soil; ornamental and becoming a large tree in cultivation. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact, satiny, containing few scattered, small, open ducts ; medullary 

 rays very numerous, thiu, conspicuous ; color, dark brown, the thick sap-wood light brown or yellow ; specific 



gravity, 0.7108; ash, 4.22. 

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