34 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



OAPPARIDAOE^. 



11. Capparis Jamaicensis, Jacquin, 



Btirp. Am. 100, t. 101. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. lii, 285. De Candolle, Prodr. 1, 252. Descoortilz, FL Med. Antilles, y. t. 273. 

 Mocfadyeo, Fl. Jamaica,' 39. Grisebacb, FI. BritiHli West IndicH, 18. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 32. Porcher, ResonrcesS. Forests, 

 7.';. Lichler in Martins, Fl.Brasil. xiii, 270, t. 64, f. 11. Vascy, Cat. Forest Trees, 0. 



C. Breynia, Llnuasus, Spec. 2 ed. 721, in part. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. lii, 285. De CandoUe, Prodr. 1, 2S2, In part. 

 Swartz, Obs. 210 [not Jacquin]. Macliidyen, Fl. Jamaica, 39. 



G. cynophyllophora, Liunieug, Spec. 1 ed. 504 [not sabseqnent ed. fi<le Elcliler, I. c.]. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. lii, 285. 

 Mucfadyeii, Fl. Jamaica, 39. 



0. siliquoga, I.innoius, Spec. 2ed.721. 



0. torulosa, Swartz, Prodr. 81. De Candolle, Prodr. 1, 252. Grisebach, Fl. Britisb West Indies, 18. 



0. uncinata, Loddiges, Cat. [not Wallicb]. 



C. emarfjinata, Rlcbard, Fl. Cuba, 78, t. 9. Walpers, Rep. i, 201. 



Semi-tropical Florida, cape Canaveral to the southern keys ; in the West Indies and southward to Brazil. 



A small tree, sometimes G meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 meter in diameter, or reduced to a low shrub; 

 common and reaching its greatest development within the United States on Upper Metacombe and Umbrella Keys. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact, satiny, containing many evenly-distributed large open ducta; 

 medullary rays numerous, obscure; color, yellow tinged with red, the sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.6971 ; 

 ash, 4.70. 



CANELLACE^. 



12. Canella alba, Murray; 



Linnnsus, Syst. 14 ed. iv, 443. Swartz, Obs. 190 ; Trans. Linniean Soc. i, 96, t. 8. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 851 ; Enum. i, 498. Alton, Hort. 

 Kew.2 ed. lii, 144. Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. Suppl. 3, t. 10, f. 4. De Candolle, Prodr. i, 563. Hayne, Arzn. 9, t. 5. Stevenson 

 & Churchill, Med. Bot. ii, t. 66. -Woodvillo, Med. Bot. 3 cd. iv, 694, t. 237. Lindley, Med. Bot. 116. Carson, Med. Bot. i, 24, t. 

 16. Griffith, Med. Bot. 181, f. 98. Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3 ser. i, 348; Contrib. i, 116. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 

 109. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 93. Gnlbourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. lii, 621, f. 767. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 7. Bentley & 

 Trimen, Med. PI. i, 26, t. 26. 



0. Winterana, Gartner, Fnict. 1, 377, t. 77. 



Wintera Canella, Llnmens, Spec. 2 ed. 636. Poiret In Lamarck, Diet, viii, 799, t. 399. 



0. lavri/oHa, Loddiges, Cot Sweet, Hort. Brit. 65. Don, Miller's Diet. 1, 680. 



WHITE \yOOD. CINNAMON BARK. WILD CINNAMON. 



Semi-tropical Florida, on the southern keys (Elliott's Key, Key Largo to Jew Fish Key); through the West 

 Indies. 



A small tree, often 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.22 meter in diameter; not rare. 



Wood very heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, close grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, 

 dark reddish-brown, the sap-wood light brown or yellow; specific gravity, 0.9893; ash, 1.75. 



The pale inner bark appears in the Fharmacopoea under the name of Cortex canellw albw, furnishing an 

 aromatiu stimulant and tonic, occasionally employed in ciises of debility of the digestive organs, or as an adjunct 

 to more active remedies (JMterg, I. c. FlUcUger cfc Hanbury, Pharmacographia, 08. U. S. Dispennatory, 14 ed. 

 'AlO.Nat. Diitpenmtory, 2 ed. 337). 



