38 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



38. Cliftonia ligustrina, Banks, 



Ex. Gaertner f. Fruot. Snppl. 246, t. 225. Bartram, Travels, 2 ed. 31. ToiTcy & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 256. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 

 92, t.73; 2 ed. ii, 39, t. 73. Planchon in Hooker's Jour. Bot.v, 255. Walpers, Rep. vi, 422. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1412. Scbnizlein. 

 Icon. t. 240", f. 5, 7-10, 20. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 251. Chapman, FI. S. States, 273. Porcher, Resources 8. 

 Forests, 130. Baillon in Adansonia, i, 202, t. 4, f. 3-6. Vascy, Cat. Forest Trees, 18. 



Mylocaryum UgnMrinum, Willdenow, Enum. i, 454. Bot. Mag. t. 1625. Lamarck, HI. iii, 616, t. 952, f. 1. Pursh, Fl. 

 Am. Sept. i, 302, t. 14. Poiret, Suppl. iv, 41. Elliott, Sk. i, 508. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 231. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 

 323. Darby, Fl. 8. States, 417. Wood, CI. Book, 493; Bot. & Fl. 205. 



TITI. mON W(;OD. BUCKWHEAT TREE. 



Valley of the Savannah river, Georgia, southward to the Chattahoochee region of west Florida, westward along 

 the Gulf coast to the valley of the Pearl river, Louisiana. 



A small tree, sometimes 12 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.40 meter in diameter, or toward its southern 

 limits in Florida reduced to a shrub; margins of pine-barreu ponds and streams. 



Wood heavy, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, brown tinged 

 with red, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.6249; ash, 0.42; largely used as fuel, burning with a clear flame. 



CELASTRACE^. 



39. Eucnymus atropurpureus, Jacquin, 



Hort. Vind. ii, 155, t. 120. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 573; HI. ii, 98. Aiton, Hort. Kew. i, 274; 2ed. ii, 29. Willdenew, Spec, i, 1132; Enum. i, 

 256. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 155. Persoon, Syn. i,243. Nouveau Duhamel, iii, 26. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 3.56. Pursh, Fl. 

 Am. Sept. i, 168. Turpin, Diet. Soi. Nat. xvii, 532, t. 272. Eaton, Manual, 28 ; 6 ed. 140. Nuttall, Genera, 155. Roemer & Schultes, 

 Syst. V, 466. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 24. ElUott, Sk. i, 293. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 4. Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, ii, 173 ; Fl. U. S. 

 261 ; Compeqd. Fl. N. States, 120 ; Fl. N. York, i, 141 ; Nicollet's Rep. 147. Sprengel, Syst. i, 788. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 5 

 Beck, Bot. 72. Hooker, Jour. Bot. i, 201. Spaeh, Hist. Veg. ii, 405. Rafinesque, New Fl. 60. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 499, f. 167. 

 : Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 257. Dietrich, Syn. i, 819. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 240. Griffith, Med. Bot. 219, f. 112. Gray, 



Genera, ii, 188; Manual N. States, 5 ed. IIG. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 423. Parry in Owen's Rep. 610. Darby, Bot. S. States, 

 268. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 48. Baillon in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, v, 314. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 76. Curtis in Rep. 

 Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 102. Lesqnereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 354. Wood, CI. Book, 289 ; Bot. & Fl. 76. 

 Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 129. Engelmann in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. new ser. xii, 187. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 629. Young, 

 Bot. Texas, 205. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 9. 



U. Garolinensis, Marshall, Arbnstum, 43. 



E. latifolius, Marshall, Arbnstum, 44 [not Alton]. Agardh,Theor. & Syst. PI. t. 22, f. 4. 



BURNING BUSH. WAHOO. SPINDLE TREE. ARROW WOOD. 



Western New York, west to the valley of the upper Missouri river {Fort Union), Montana, southward to northern 

 Florida, southern Arkansas, and eastern Kansas. 



A small tree, rarely 6 to 8 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 meter in diameter, or more often a shiub 2 to 3 

 meters in height ; low, rich woods, reaching its greatest development west of the Mississippi river. 



Wood heavy, very close-grained, liable to check badly in seasoning ; medullary rays hardly discernible ; color, 

 white tinged with orange ; specific gravity, 0.6592 ; ash, 0.58. 



Wahoo bark, a mild but rather uncertain purgative, is used bj- herbalists in the form of decoctions, tinctures, 

 fluid extracts, etc. {Am. Jour. Pharmacyj xx, 80. U. 8. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 402. Ifat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 559). 



40. Myginda pallens, Smith, 



Bees' Cycl. xxv. No. 4. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 13. Dietrich, Syn. i, 554. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 146. Chapman iu 

 Coulter's Bot. Gazette, iii, 3 ; Fl. S. States, Suppl. 612. 



Semi-tropical Florida, Upper Metacombe Key; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, rarely exceeding 4 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 meter iu diameter. 



Wood very heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact, satiny ; layers of annual growth and numerous medullary 

 rays hardly distinguishable; color, dark brown or nearly black, the thick sap-wood lighter brown tinged with red; 

 specific gravity, 0.9048 ; ash, 3.42. 



