84 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



MAHOGANY. MADEIEA. 



Semi-tropical Florida, on the southern keys (Key Largo, Elliott's Key); through the West Indies, and in 

 Central America. 



A large tree, on the Florida keys rarely exceeding 15 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.90 meter in 

 diameter. 



Wood heavy, exceedingly hard, very strong, brittle, very close-grained, compact, very durable, susceptible of 

 a high polish; medullary rays numerous, obscure; color, rich reddish- brown, turning darker with age, the thin sap- 

 woo<l yellow; specific gravity, 0.7282; ash, 1.09; varying greatly in quality in different regions; largely used and 

 preferred to all other woods for cabinet-making of all sorts, interior finish, etc.; formerly somewhat employed in 

 ship-building. 



OLACIKE^ 



32. Ximenia Americana, Linnseus, 



Spec. 1 ed. Appx. 1193. Bartram, Travels, 2 ed. 112. Lamarck, 111. ii, 435, t. 297. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 338. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 

 ed. ii, 352. De CandoUe, Prodr. i, 533. Nuttall, Sylva, i, 124, t. 36; 2 ed. i, 138, t. 36. Schnizlein, Icon. t. 223, f. 1-9, 30, 31 

 Cambessedes in St. Hilaire, Fl. Brasil. i, 341. Wight & Walker- Arnott, Prodr. Fl. Penins. Or. i, 89. Walpers, Rep. i, 377; Ann. 

 vi, 565. Eichard, Fl. Cuba, 304. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 264. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 310. Baillon, 

 Adansonia, ii, t. 9, f. 5, 6. Chapman, Fl. 8. States, 61. Engler in Martins, Fl. Brasil. xii, 9, t. 2, f. 1. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 

 8. Hemsley, Bot. Am.-Cent. i, 185. 



HeymassoK spinosa, Aublet, Guian. i, 324, t. 125. Lamarck, 111. ii, 435. 



X. multiflora^ Jacquin, Stirp. Am. 106, t. 177, f. 31. Lamarck, 111. ii, 435, t. 297, f. 1, 2. Spach, Hist. Veg. xiii, 264. 



X. niontana, Macfadyen, Fl. Jamaica, i, 121. 



WILD LIME. TALLOW NUT. HOG PLUM. MOUNTAIN PLUM. 



Florida, east coast from the Saint John's river to the southern keys, west coast Caloosa river to Caximba.s 

 bay; through the West Indies to Brazil, and on the coast of the Indian peninsula (introduced?, A. De CandoUe, 

 Oeog. Bot ii, 1027). 



A small, low, wide -spreading tree, rarely exceeding 4 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 meter in diameter, 

 or in pine-barren soil and toward its northern limits reduced to a low shrub; common and reaching its greatest 

 development in Florida on the west coast. 



Wood very heavy, tough, hard, close-grained, compact, containing numerous regularly-distributed open ducts; 

 medullary rays few, thin; color, brown, tinged with red, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.9196; ash, 0.73. 



Hydrocyanic acid has been obtained from the edible plum-shaped fruit {Fluckiger & Eanbury, Pharmacographia, 

 222). 



ILIOINEiE. 



33. Ilex opaca, Aiton, 



Hort. Kew. i, 169; 2 ed.i,277. Willdenow, Spec, i, 708; Enum. 172; Berl. Baumz. 190. Nouvean Duhamel, i, 8. Michaux, Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. ii, 228. Persoon, Syn. i, 151. Poiret, Suppl. iii, 65. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii, 191, 1. 11 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 122, t. 

 84. Barton, Prodr. Fl. Philadelph. 95 ; Compend. Fl. Philadclph. 94. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 117. Rafincsque, Fl. Ludoviciana, 111 ; 

 Med. Bot. ii, 7, t. 53. Nuttall, Genera, i, 109. Rccmer & Schnltes, Syst. iii, 487. Link, Euum. 147. James, Cat. 176; Long's Exped. 

 ii, 294. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 10. Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, ii, 173; Fl. U.S. 194; Compend. Fl. N. States, 87; Fl. N. York,ii,2. 

 Elliott, Sk. ii, 679. De CandoUe, Prodr. ii, 14. Sprengel, Syst. i, 495. Watson, Dend. Brit, i, t. 3. Beck, Bot. 230. Eaton, Manual, 

 6 ed. 186.- Loudon, Arboretnm, ii, 516 & t. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 121 ; Jour. Bot. i, 201. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 282. Bigelow, 

 Fl. Boston. 3 ed.64. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 17. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 427. Dietrich, Syn. i, 554. Griffith, Med. Bot. 432. Emerson, 

 Trees Massachusetts, 341 ; 2 ed. ii, 385 & t. Browne, Trees of America, 1C7. Darby, Bot. S. States, 426. Darlington, Fl. 

 Cestrica, 3 ed. 17. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 253. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 269. Cnrtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. 

 Carolina, 1860, iii, 58. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 373. Wood, CI. Book, 496; Bot. & Fl. 207. Gray, Manual N. 

 States, 5ed. 306. Young, Bot. Texas, 372. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 8. Maximowicz in Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, xxix. No. 3, 29.-- 

 Mellichamp in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, viii, 113. 



