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FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



ANACARDIACE^ 







69. Rhus cotinoides, NuUall, 



in Herb. Philadelphia Acad. ; Travels, 177. Cooper in Smithsonian Eep. 1858, 250. Chapman, Fl. 8. States, 70. Wood, CL 

 Book, 285 ; Bot. & Fl. r3. Buckley in Proo. Philadelphia Acad. 1881, 125. Mohr in Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 1881, 217. 



S. CO<tnMf Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 216. Wood, CI. Book, 285. 



Cotinus Americanus, Nuttall, Sylva, iii, 1, t. 81 ; 2 ed. ii, 71, t. 81. 



Cotinus cogffygria, Engler in De Candolle, Suites, iv, 351, in part. 



Indian territorj', " on tho light, broken, calcareous, rocky banks of the Grand river, a large tributary of the 

 Arkansas, at a place then known as the Eagle's Nest," {Nuttall, I. c); Alabama, north of the Tennessee river on 

 southern slopes of the Cumberland mountains (on a hill near Bailie's farm, twelve miles from Huntsville, on the 

 Madison road, BucMey, Mohr), and doubtfully reported north of the Alabama line, in Tennessee. 



CHITTAM WOOD. 



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In Alabama, a smaU wide-branching tree, 9 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.30 meter in diameter; 

 on limestone benches from 700 to 900 feet elevation, in dense forests of oak, ash, maple, etc.; local and very rare; 

 not rediscovered in Arkansas or the Indian territory ; in Alabama nearly exterminated. 



Wood light, soft, rather coarse-grained, checking badly in drying, very durable in contact with the soil; layers 

 of annual growth marked by several rows of large open ducts ; medullary rays, numerous, very obscure ; color, 

 bright, clear, rich orange, the thin sap-wood nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.6425 ; ash, 0.50 ; largely used locally 

 for fencing, and yielding a clear orange dye. 



70. Rhus typhina, LinnsBus, 



Amcen. iv, 311. Medicns, Bot. Beobacht. 1782, 228. Wangeuheiui, Amer. 95. Marshall, Arbustiun, 129. ^Walter, Fl. Caroliuiaua, 

 255. Alton, Hort. Kew.i, 365; 2 ed.ii, 162. Ehrhart, Beitr. vi, 89. Mrench, Meth. 72. Wilklcnow, Spec.i, 1478; Ennm. i, 323. 

 B.S.Barton, Coll. i, 51. Schkuhr, Handb. 237. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 182. Nouveau Dnhamel, ii, 164, t. 47. Persoon, Syn. i, 

 324. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 325. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, vii, 503. Bartou, Prodr. Fl. Philadelpb. 39; Compend. Fl. 

 Philadclph. i,153. Pnrsli, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 204. Eaton, Manual, 35 ; 6 ed. 302. Nuttall, Genera, i, 203. Rcemer & Schultes, Syst. vi, 

 643. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 33. Elliott, Sk. i, 360. Torrey, Fl. U. S. 322 ; Compend. Fl. N. States, 140; Fl. N. York, i, 123. De Candolle, 

 Prodr. ii, 67. Sprcngel, Syst. i, 936. Watson, Dend.' Brit, i, t. 17, 18. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 126. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 70. 

 Beck, Bot. 76. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 212. Bennett, PI. Jav. Rar. 80. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 550, f. 224. Torrey & Gray, Fl. 

 N. America, i, 217, 680. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 392. Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 126. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1002. Emerson, Trees 

 Massachusetts, ,501 ; 2 ed.ii, ,571 & t. Browne, Trees of America, 184. Griffith, Med. Bot. 186. Parry in Owen's Eep. 610. 

 Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 43. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 424. Darby, Bot. S. States, 254. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 

 250. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 69. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1S60, iii, 93. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. 

 Arkansas, 353. Wood, CI. Book, 384; Bot. & Fl. 73. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 208. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 111. 

 Koch, Dendrologie, i, 576. Young, Bot. Texas, 197. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 10. Guibourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. iii, 488. Nat. 

 Dispensatory, 2ed. 12:). Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 63. Engler in De Candolle, Suites, iv, 377. 



Datisca hirta, Linnajus, Spec, l ed. 1037. Don, Miller's Diet, i, 290. 



B. hypselodendron, Moeneh, Meth. T3. 



B. Canadense, Miller, Diet. No. 5.- Nouveau Dnhamel, ii, 163. 



B. Viridiflora, Nouvean Dnhamel, ii, 163. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, vii, 504. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 67. Nuttall, Genera, 

 i, 203. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 70. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1002. London, Arboretum, ii, 551. ^Browne, Trees of America, 

 184. 



B. typhina, var. viridiflora, Engler in De Candolle, Suites, iv, 378. 



