CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 137 



250. Myrica Californica, Chamisso, 



Linnaja, vi, 535. Bentham, PI. Hartweg. 336 ; Bot. Sulphur, 55. Hooker, PI. Bor.-Am. ii, 160. Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey, 

 390. Lindley in Jour. London Hort. Soc. vii, 282. Torrey in Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 137 ; Bot. Wilkes Exped. 465. Newberry 

 in Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 89. Cooper in Pacific R. R. Rep. xii 2 , 68. C. De Candolle, Prodr: xvi 2 , 153. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 

 401. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 28. Hall in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, ii, 91. Watson, Bot. California, ii, 81. ' 



f M. Xalapensis, Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey, 160. 



Cape Foulweather, Oregon, south near the coast to the bay of Monterey, California. 



A small evergreen tree, rarely exceeding 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.45 meter in diameter, or 

 toward its northern limits reduced to a low shrub ; sandy beaches and gravelly hillsides. 



Wood heavy, very hard, strong, brittle, very close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, thin, 

 conspicuous ; color, light rose, the sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.6703 ; ash, 0.33. 



CUPULIFER^. 



251. Quercus alba, Linnaeus, 



Spec. 1 ed. 996. Du Roi, Harbk. ii, 270, t. 5, f. 5. Lamarck, Diet, i, 720. Marshall, Arbustum, 119. Wangenheim, Amer. 12, t. 3, f. 

 6. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 235. Aiton, Hort. Kew. iii, 358 ; 2 ed. v, 293. Abbot, Insects Georgia, ii, t. 80, 87. Michaux, Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. ii, 195. Muhlenberg & Willdenow in Nene Schriften Gesell. Nat. Fr. Berlin, iii, 395. Willdenow, Spec, iv, 448; Enum. 977; 

 Berl. Baumz. 346. Persoon, Syn. ii, 570. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 508. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii, 13, t. 1; N. American 

 Sylva, 3 ed. i, 22, 1. 1. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 633. Bai ton, Prodr. Fl. Philadelph. 9t ; Compend. Fl. Philadclph. ii, 17. Eaton, 

 Manual, 108; 6 ed. 293. Nuttall, Genera, ii,215 ; Sylva, i, 14: 2 ed. i, 24. Nouveau Duhamel, vii, 175. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 158. 

 Elliott, Sk. ii, 607. Sprengel, Syst. iii, 864. Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 359; FJ. N. York, ii, 192. Audubon, Birds, t. 107, 

 147. Beck, Bot. 330. London, Arboretum, iii, 1864, f. 1723-1726 & t. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 158. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 385. 

 Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 375. Spach, Hist. Veg. xi, 155. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 127, t. 1; 2 ed. i, 145 & t. Griffith, 

 Med. Bot. 585. Penn. Cycl. xix, 216. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 437. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 266. Darby, Bot. S. States, 

 511. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 255. Brendel in Trans. Illinois Ag. Soc. iii, 613, t. 1. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 423. Curtis 

 in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 31. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 387. Wood, Cl. Book, 645 ; Bot. & 

 Fl. 306. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 257. A. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 4 , 22. Orsted in Saerskitt. Aftryk. af. Nat. For. Viden. 

 Meddelt. Nos. 1-6, 1866, 66. Liebmann, Chenes Am. Trop. t. xxxiii, 29, 30, 58, 59. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 450; Hall's PI. 

 Texas, 21. Koch, Dendrologie, ii 2 , 50. Young, Bot. Texas, 505. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 25. Broadhead in Coulter's Bot. 

 Gazette, iii, 60. Sears in Bull. Essex Inst. xiii, 179. Britton in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, viii, 126. Bell in Geological Rep. Canada, 

 1879-'80, 52 C . Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 78. 



?Q. sinuata, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 235. 



Q. alba, \SLT.pinnatifida, Michaux, Hist. Ch6nes Am. No. 4,t. 5,f. 1 ; Fl. Bor.-Am. ii,195. Loudou, Arboretum, iii, 1864. 



Q. alba, var. repanda, Michaux, Hist. Chenes Am. No.4,t. 5,f.2. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 633. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 159. 

 London, Arboretum, iii, 1864. 



Q. alba, var. pinnatifido-sinuata, Hayne, Dend. Fl. 158. 



Q. alba, var. sinuata, Hayne, Dend. Fl. 159. 



Q. alba, var. microcarpa, A. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi",22. 



WHITE OAK. 



Northern Maine, valley of the Saint Lawrence river, Ontario, lower peninsula of Michigan to southeastern 

 Minnesota, south to the Saint John's river and Tampa bay, Florida, west to the valley of Nodaway river, Missouri, 

 western Arkansas, and the valley of the Brazos river, Texas. 



A large tree of the first economic value, 24 to 45 meters in height, with a trunk 1.20 to 2.40 meters in diameter; 

 all soils; very common and reaching its greatest development along the western slopes of the Alleghany 

 mountains and in the valley of the Ohio river and its tributaries, here often forming more than half the forest 

 growth. 



Wood strong, very heavy, hard, tough, close-grained, liable to check unless carefully seasoned, durable in 

 contact with the soil; layers of annual growth strongly marked by several rows of large open ducts; medullary 

 rays broad, prominent ; color, brown, the sap-wood lighter brown ; specific gravity, 0.7470; ash, 0.41; largely used 

 in ship-building, construction of all sorts, cooperage, in the manufacture of carriages, agricultural implements, and 

 baskets, and for railway ties, fencing, interior finish, cabinet-making, fuel, etc. 



A decoction of the astringent inner bark is employed medicinally in cases of hemorrhage, dysentery, etc. ( U. 

 8. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 755. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 1196). 



