CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 23 



ANONAOEJE. 



9. Asimina triloba, Dunal, 



Mon. Anon. 83. De CandoUe, Syst. i, 479; Prodr. i, 87. Elliott, Sk. 11, 42. Guimpel, Otto & Hayne, Abb. Holz. 66, t. 53. Hayno, 

 Dend. Fl. il8. Sprcngel, Syst. ii, 639. Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 222; Ann. Lye. N. York, 11, 165 Beck, Bot. 16. Don, 

 Miller's Diet. 1, 91. Nnttall in Jonr. Philadelphia Acad, vii, 11. Dietrich, Syn. lii, 304. Loudon, Arboretum, i, 293, f. 39. Gray, 

 Genera, i, 69, t. 26,27; Manual N. States, 5 ed. 50. Parry in Owen's Rep. 609. Darlington, Fl. Cestrlca, 3 ed. 9. Darby, Bot. S. 

 States, 212. Cooper In Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 250. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 15. Curtis In Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 

 1860, iii, 94. Lcsquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 347. Maout & Decalsne, Bot. English ed. 199 & figs. Bot. Mag. t. 

 5854. Wood, CI. Book, 215 ; Bot. & Fl. 26. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 41. Engelmann in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. new ser. 

 xii, 183. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 383. Young, Bot. Texas, 149. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 6. Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua. 

 1882, 60. Burgess in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, vii, 95. 



Anona triloba, Linnaeus, Spec. 1 ed. 537. Marshall, Arbustum, 10. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 125. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 158. 

 B. S. Barton, Coll. i, 29. Alton, Hort. Kew. ii,254 ; 2 ed. iii, 335. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 1267 ; Enum. i, 580. Nouveau 

 Duhamel, ii, 83, t. 25. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 21. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 161, t. 9 ; N. American Sylva, 

 3 ed. ii, 33, t. 60. Barton, Prodr. Fl. Philadelph. 59. Schknhr, Handb. ii, 95, t. 149. 



Anona pendula, Salisbury, Prodr. 380. 



Orchidocarpum arietinum, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 329. 



Porcelia triloba, Persoon, Syn. ii, 95. Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 383. Rafinesque, Fl. Ludoviciana, 92. Barton, Compend. 

 Fl. Philadelph. ii, 18. Nnttall, Genera, ii, 19. Poiret, Suppl. iv, 529. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 278. Audubon, Birds, t. 

 2, 162. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 371. 



Uvaria triloba, Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 45. Torrey, Fl. N. York, i, 30. Camel in Ann. Mus. Firenze, 1864, 9, t. 

 1, f. 1-7. Baaion, Adansonia, viii, 333; Hist. PI. i, 193, f. 220-228. 



A. campaniflwa, Spach, Hist. Veg. vii, 529. 



PAPAW. CUSTAKD APPLE. 



Western New York (Lockport and in Monroe county); Ontario (Queen stown heights); eastern and central 

 Pennsylvania, west to southern Michigan, southern Iowa, and eastern Kansas (Manhattan), south to middle 

 Florida and the valley of the Sabine river, Texas. 



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

 reduced to a slender shrub ; rich, rather low woods, reaching its greatest development in the lower Wabash valley 

 and in the valley qf the White river, Arkansas. 



Wood very light, very soft and weak, coarse-grained, spongy; layers of annual growth clearly marked by 

 several rows of large open ducts; color, light yellow shaded with green, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 

 0.3969; ash, 0.21. 



10. Anona laurifolia, Dunal, 



Mon. Anon. 65. De Candolle, Syst. i, 468; Prodr. i, 84. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 641. Lindley, Bot. Reg. xvi, t. 1328. Schnizlein, Icon. 

 1. 174, f. 9. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 4. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1860, 439. Chapman, Fl. S. States, Suppl. 603. 



A. glabra, Chapman in Conlter'B Bot. Gazette, iii, 2 [not Linnffius]. 



A. SlJCCieS, Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 6. 



POND APPLE. 



Semi-tropical Florida, cape Malabar to bay Biscayne, on the west coast. Pease creek to the Caloosa river, 

 and through the West Indies. 



A small tree, sometimes 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 meter in diameter, or toward its northern limit and 

 on the west coast often reduced to a stout, wide-spreading shrub ; common and reaching its greatest development 

 within the United States on the low i.slands and t hores of the Everglades in the neighborhood of bay Biscayne. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, rather close grained, compact, containing many scattered open ducts ; color, light 

 brown streaked with yellow, sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.5053 ; ash, 4.86. 



The large fruit (0.14 to 0.28 meter long) scarcely edible. 



