40 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



44. Condalia obovata, Hooker, 



loon. t. 2fl7. Torrey &. Gray, Fl. i, 685. Gray in Jonr. Boston 8oo. Nat. Hist, vi, 169 ; Genera, ii, 172, 1. 164 ; Smithsonian Contrib. iii, 

 32 ; V, 27 ; Hall's PI. Texas, 5. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bonndary Survey, 47. Watson in Proo. Am. Aoad. xyii, 336. 



BLUE WOOD. LOGWOOD. PURPLE HAW. 



Eastern and southwestern Texas, westward through southern New Mexico to southern Arizona; probably 

 extending into nerthern Mexico. 



A small tree, 6 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter, or often a shrub ; reaching 

 its greatest development along the streams of eastern Texas; one of the common "chaparral" plants of western 

 Texas, here forming dense, impenetrable thickets. 



Wood very heavy, hard, close-grained, liable to check in seasoning, containing many groups of large 

 irregularly-arranged open ducts; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color, light red, the sap-wood light yellow; 

 specific gravity, 1.1999; ash, 7.03. 



45. Rhamnus Caroliniana, Walter, 



Fl. Caroliniana, 101. Lamarck, 111. ii, 88; Diet, iv, 476. Michaox, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 153. Nouveau Duliamel, iii, 47. Persoon. Syn. 

 i, 239. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 166. Nuttall, Genera, i, 153. Ecemer fe Schultes, Syst. v, 285. EUiott, Sk. i, 289. De Candolle, 

 Prodr. ii, 26. Sprengel, Syst. i, 768. Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, ii, 174. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 32. Hooker, Jour. Bot. i, 

 202. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. Ameriea, i, 262. Dietrich, Syn. i, 807. London, Arboretum, ii, 537. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 300. Eaton 

 & Wright, Bot. 390. Seheele in Roemer, Texas, 432. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 50, t. 59 ; 2 ed. i, 198, t. 59. Darby, Bot. S. States, 269. 

 Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 354. Wood, CI. Book, 219 ; Bot. & Fl. 77. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 610. Gray, Hall's 

 PI. Texas, 5. 



t Frangula fragillis, Rafinesque, Fl. Ludovioiana, 320; Sylva Telluriana, 27. 



Sarcomphalus CaroUnianus, Rafinesque, Sylva Telluriana, 29. 



Frangula Caroliniana, Gray, Genera, ii, 178, t. 167 ; Manual N. states, 5 ed. 115. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary S irvoy, 

 46. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 251.. Curtis in Eep. Geological Snrv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 92. Chapman, 

 Fl. S. States, 73. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 9. 



INDIAN CHEERY. , 



Long Island, New York, west along the valley of the Ohio river to southern Illinois, Missouri south of the 

 Meramec river, eastern Kansas, and the Indian territory, south to northern Florida (latitude 30), and through 

 the Gulf states to western Texas. 



A small tree, 6 to 10 meters in heiglit, with a trunk 0.20 to 0.30 meter in diameter, or in the Atlantic states 

 generally a tall shrub; rich woods along streams and river bottoms, reaching its greatest development in southern 

 Arkansas and eastern Texas. 



Wood light, hard, not strong, coarse-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, light brown, 

 the sap-wood lighter; siieciflc gravity, 0.5462; ash, 0.64. 



The edible fruit sweet and agreeable. 



46. Rhamnus Californica, Eschscholiz, 



Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, x, 281 (Linnaa hitt.-BeT. 1828, 149. Presi, Rep. Bot. i, 197). Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 32. Torrey & Gray, 

 Fl. N. America, i, 263. Dietrich, Syn. i, 806. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 390. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 101. Hemsley, 

 Bot. Am.-Cent. i, 197. 



B. Oleifolius, Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 123, t. 44. Hooker & Amott, Bot. Beechey, 136, 328. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. 

 America, i, 260. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 390. Bentham, Bot. Sulphur, 10 ; PI. Hartweg. 302. Durand in Jour. 

 Philadelphia Acad. 1855, gS.- Carrifere in Rev. Hort. xlvi, 354, f. 47-49. 



Endotropis oleifolia, Rafinesque, Sylva Telluriana, 31. 



R, laurifolius, Nuttall in Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 260. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 390. * 



Frangula Californica, Gray, Genera, ii, 178 ; Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 146. Torrey iu Sitgreaves' Rep. 1,">/ 

 Pacific E. E, Eep. iv, 74; Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 46; Bot. Wilkes Exped. 261. Newberry in Pacific E. E. 

 Eep. vi, 69. Bolandor in Proo. California Acad, iii, 78. 



California, west of the Sierra Nevadas, from the valley of the upper Sacramento river southward to Santa 

 Barbara and fort Tejon. 



