CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 119 



Var. palustris, Chapman, 

 Fl. S. States, 393. 



Laurus Carolinensis, var. pubescens, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 276. 



P. Carolinensis, var. pubescens, Meisner in De Candollo, Prodr. xv', 51. 



North Carolina to Alabama, generally near the coast. 



A small tree, 9 to 12 meters in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.30 meter in diameter; low, sandy banks 

 of pine-barren streams and swamps ; well distinguished from the species by the longer peduncles densely clothed, 

 as are the young shoots and under sides of the leaves, with short, brown toinentum, and by the somewhat coarser- 

 grained orange-colored wood. 



Wood heavy, soft, strong, close-grained, compact, containing numerous rather large open ducts ; medullary 

 rays numerous, thin ; color, orange streaked with brown ; the sap-wood light brown or gray ; specific gravity, 

 0.6396 ; ash, 0.37. 



216. Nectandra Willdenoviana, Nees, 



Syst. Laurinarum, 290, 321. Meisner in De Caudolle, Prodr. xvi 3 , 165. 

 Laurus sanguinea, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. ii, 707. 



Laurus Catesbyana, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 244. Poiret, Suppl. iii, 321. Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 275. Elliott, Sk. i, 

 462. Sprengel, Syat. ii, 265. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 199. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 294. Darby, Bot. S. States, 491. 



Laurus Catcsbcei, Persoon, Syn. i, 499. Nuttall, Genera, i, 258. 

 Gymnobalanus Catesbyana, Nees, Syst. Laurinarum, 483. 

 S. Bredemeieriana, Nees in Linnsea, xxi, 505. 

 Persea Catesbyana, Chapman, Fl. S. States, 393. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 21. 



LANCE WOOD. 



Semi-tropical Florida, cape Canaveral and cape Romano to the southern keys ; through the West Indies to 

 Central America. 



A small tree, 6 to 9 meters in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.15 meter in diameter ; common and 

 reaching its greatest development in Florida on the shores of bay Biscayne and in the neighborhood of cape 

 Romano. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, checking in drying, containing many small, regularly-distributed, open 

 ducts ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, rich dark brown, the sap-wood bright yellow ; specific gravity, 

 0.7693 ; ash, 0.60. 



217. Sassafras officinale, Nees, 



Handb. der Med. Pharm. Bot. ii, 418; Syst. Laurinarum, 488. Hayne, Arzn. i, 12, 1. 19. Lindley, Fl. Med. 338. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1357. 

 Spach, Hist Veg. x, 503. Torrey, Fl. N. York, ii, 158. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 359 ; 2 ed. ii, 359 & t. Griffith, Med. Bot. 

 551. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 251. Spruce in Hooker's London Jour. Bot. vii, 278. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 

 254. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 394. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 63. Lesquerenx in Owen's 2d Rep. 

 Arkansas, 384. Wood, Cl. Book, 620; Bot. & Fl. 290. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 350. Meisner in De Candolle, Prodr. xv 1 , 

 171. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 423; Hall's PI. Texas, 19. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 364. Young, Bot. Texas, 473. Vasoy, Cat. 

 Forest Trees, 21. Broadhead in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, iii, 59. Bentley & Trimen, Med. PI. iii, 220, t. 220. Ridgway iu Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882,70. Bell in Geological Rep. Canada, 1879-'80, 55". 



Laurus Sassafras, Limucus, Spec. 1 ed. 371. Du Roi, Harbk. i, 356. Kalni, Travel*, English ed. i, 146, 341. Marshall, 

 Arbnstmn,74. Waugenheim, Amer. 82, t. 27, f. 56. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 134. - Aiton, Hort. Kew. ii,40; 2 ed. ii, 

 429. Lamarck, Diet, iii, 454. Abbot, Insects Georgia, i. t. 11. B. S. Barton, Coll. 11, 19; ii, 27. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 

 485; Enum. 435; Bed. Baumz. 208. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 243. Schkuhr, Handb. 349. Persoon, Syn. i, 450. 

 Robin, Voyages, iii, 361. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i, 66. Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. 130. Michanx f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 

 173, t. 1; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 113, t. 81. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 277. Rafinesque, Fl. Ludoviciaua, 25. 

 Bigelow, Med. Bot. ii, 142, t. 35 ; Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 170. Nuttall, Genera, i, 259 ; Sylva, i, 88 ; 2 ed. i, 104. Elliott, Sk. i, 

 464. Nees, PI. Offic. t. 131. Torrey, Fl. U. S. i, 408 ; Compend. Fl. N. States, 174. Desconrtilz, Fl. Antilles, vii, 51, t. 

 464. Audubon, Birds, t. 144. Stephenson & Churchill, Med. Bot. iii, t. 126. Beck, Bot. 305. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 

 199. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 2 ed. 254. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 293. Browne, Trees of America, 416. Darby, Bot. 

 S. States, 49-.>. 



Persea Sassafras, Sprengel, Syst, ii, 270. Schnizlein, Icon, t, 106, f. 15-23. 



