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Wood very heavy and hard, strong, brittle, close-grained, compact, the grain generally contorted, difficult to 

 cut and work, susceptible of a high polish ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, rich dark brown streaked with 

 red, the sap-wood clear bright j'ellow; specific gravity, 1.0602; ash, 2.29 (the heart-wood, 1.1486; ash, 2.59; sap- 

 wood, 0.8958 ; ash, 1.85) ; occasionally manufactured into canes. 



81. Piscidia Erythrina, Linnaeus, 



Spec. 2 ed. 993. Jacquin, Anier. 206. Swartz, Obs. 277. Lamarck, Diet, i, 443j 111. iii, 163, t. 605. Titford, Hort. Bot. Am. 84. 

 Lunan, Hort, Jam. i, 269. Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. & Spec, vi, 382. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 267. Descourtilz, 

 Fl. Med. Antilles, iii, 203, t. 196. Macfadyen, Fl. Jamaica, i, 258. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 31, t. 52; 2 ed. i, 180. Bentham in Jour. 

 Llnnsean Soc. iv, Sappl. 116 ; Bot. Sulphur, 81. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 264. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 110. Grisebach, 

 Fl. British West Indies, 200. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 175. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 11. Hemsley, Bot. Am. -Cent, i, 319. 



Erythrina piscipula, LiunsBus, Spec, i ed. 107. 



p. Garthagenensis, De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 267. 



JAMAICA DOGWOOD. 



Semi-tropical Florida, bay Biscayne, west coast. Pease creek to cape Sable, and on the southern keys ; in the 

 West Indies and southern Mexico. 



A tree 12 to 15 meters in height, with a trunk 0.45 to 0.75 meter in diameter. 



Wood heavy, very hard, not strong, close-grained, compact, susceptible of a high polish, containing few large 

 scattered open ducts; medullary rays thin, not conspicuous ; color, yellowish-brown, the sap-wood lighter ; specific 

 gravity, 0.8734; ash, 3.38 ; one of the favorite woods of the region for boat-building, fire-wood, and charcoal. 



The bark, especiallj' of the root, narcotic, occasionally administered in the form of tinctures, or used, as well 

 as the young branches and leaves, to poison or stupefy fish. 



82. Cladrastis tinctoria, Rafiuesque, 



Fl. Kent. 1824; Neog. 1825; Med. Bot. ii, 210; New Sylva, iii, 83. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 390. Walpers, Rep. i, 807. 

 Browne, Trees of America, 192. Darby, Bot. S. States, 294. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 251. Chapman, Ft. S. States, 

 113. Porcher Resources S. Forests, 175. Wood, CI. Book, 301 ; Bot. & Fl. 84. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 143. Vasey, Cat. 

 Forest Trees, 11. 



Virgilia Itltea, Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 266, t. 3 ; Travels, 289 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 106, t. 78. Pursh, Fl. Am. 

 Sept. i, 309. Nuttall, Genera, i, 284. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 53. Loiseleiir, Herb. Amat. t. 297. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 

 93.- Sprengel, Syst. iv', 1, 171. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 112. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 397. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 163. Eaton 

 & Wright, Bot. 480. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1501. London, Arboretum, ii, 565, t..78. 



G. lutea, Koch, Dendrologie, i,6. 



YELLOW WOOD. YELLOW ASH. GOPHER WOOD. 



Central Kentucky, cliffs of the Kentucky and Dick's rivers; middle Tennessee, mountains of east Tennessee to 

 Cherokee county, ^Jforth Carolina. 



A tree 9 to 15 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.90 or, exceptionally, 1.20 meter in diameter ; rich 

 hillsides; in Kentucky on the Trenton limestones, and reaching its best development in middle Tennessee ; rare 

 and very local, the large trees generally hollow or defective. 



Wood heavy, very hard, strong, close-grained, compact, susceptible of a good polish ; layers of annual growth 

 clearly marked by several rows of open ducts, and containing many evenly distributed similar ducts; color, bright, 

 clear yellow, changing with exposure to light brown, the sap-wood nearly white; specific gravity, 0.6278; ash, 0.28; 

 used for fuel, occasionally for gunstocks, and yielding a clear yellow dye. 



83. Sophora secundiflora, Lagasca; 



De Candolle, Cat. Hort. Monsp. 148; Prodr. ii, 96. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 110. Gray in Smithsonian Contrib. iii, 54. Rev. Hort. 4 

 ger. iii, 201, t. 11. Bentham & Hooker, Genera, i, 555. Hemsley, Bot. Am. -Cent, i, 321. Watson in Proc. Am. Acad, xvii, 347. 



Brousnonetia secundiflora, Ortega, Dec. v, 61, t. 7. 



Virgilia necundiflora, Cavanilles, Icon. t. 401. 



AgOHtianis secundiflora, Rafinesque, New Sylva, iii, 86. 



Dermatophyllum speciosum, Scheele in Linnaa, xxi, 458. 



8. speciosa, Bentham in Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 178. Gray in Mem. Am. Acad, new ser. iv", 38; Smithsonian Contrib. 

 iii, 54; Hall's PI. Texas, 7. Walpers, Ann. ii, 439. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, .58. Young, Bot. Texas, 

 242. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trei^s, 12. 



