68 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



108. Prunus serotina, Ehrhart, 



Beitr. iii,20. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 986 ; Ennm. 517; Berl. Baumz. 301. Persoon, Syn. U, 34. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. il, 204. Alton, 

 Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 196. Eaton, Mannal, 54 ; 6 ed. 284. Nuttall, Genera, i, 302. Barton, Compend. Fl. Philadelph. 54. Guimpel, 

 Otto & Hayne, Abb. Holz. 45, t. 37. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 70. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 478. Nees, PI. Neuwied, 9. Hooker f. in Trans. 

 Linnsan Soc. xxii', 327. Curtis in Eep. Grcological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 56. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 

 358. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 102. Engelmann in Trans. Am. PhU. Soc. new ser. xii, 190. Cliapman,Fl. S. States, 120. Gray, Manual 

 N. States, 5 cd. 149 ; Hall's PI. Texas, 9. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 122. Torrey , Bot. Wilkes Expod. 284. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 

 2 ed. ii, 515 & t. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 167. ^Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. Bentley & Trimen, Med. PI. ii, 97, t. 

 97. Sears in Bull. Essex Inst, xiii, 176. Bell in Geological Rep. Canada, 1879-'80, 54<=.Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882,66. 



P. Virginiana. Miller, Diet. No. 3 [not Linnieus].- Du Roi, Obs. Bot. 12; Harbk. ii, 191. Wangenheim, Amer.34, t. 14. 

 Medicus, Bot. Beobacht. 1782, 345. Marshall, Arbustum, 112. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 146. Alton, Hort. Kew. ii, 

 163. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 664. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 329. Elliott, Sk. i, 540. Torrey, Fl. U. 8. 467; 

 Compend. Fl. N. States, 189. Bigelow, FL Boston. 3 ed. 204. 



Cerasus Virginiana, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 285. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 151, t. 6; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 147, 

 t. 88. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 169 (excl. syn. ). Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 515. Beck, Bot. 97. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 2 

 ed. 289. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 710, f. 418. Browne, Trees of America, 268. 



Cerasus serotina, Loiseleur in Nonveau Duhamel, v, 3. Seringe in De CandoUe, Prodr. ii, 540. Spach, Hist. Veg. i,416. 

 Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America,i,410. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 712, f. 419 & t. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 189. Torrey, 

 Fl. N. York, i, 196; Pacific R.E. Eep. vii, 11. Penn. Cycl. vi, 432. Carson, Med. Bot. i, 41, t. 35. Griffith, Med. Bot. 

 288. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 1 ed. 453. Gray, Manual N. States, 1 ed. 115; Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 

 186. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 75. Darby, Bot. S. States, 299. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 252. Porcher, 

 Resources 8. Forests, 169. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 425. Wood, CI. Book, 326. Bolander in Proc. California 

 Acad, iii, 79. 



P. cartilaginea, Lehmann, Ind. Sem. Hamburg, 1833. 



Padus serotina, Agardh, Theor. & Syst. PI. t. 14, f. 8. 



Padus Virginiana, Rcemer, Syn. Men. iii, 86. 



Padus cartilaginea, Rcemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 86. 



WILD BLACK OHEEEY. BUM CHEEBT. 



Southern Ontario, southward through the Atlantic forests to Matanzas inlet and Tampa bay, Florida, west to 

 the valley of the Missouri river, Dakota, eastern Kansas, the Indian territory, and the valley of the upper San 

 Antonio River, Texas. 



A tree 18 to 30 meters in height, with a trunk 0.90 to 1.20 or, exceptionally, 1.50 meter in diameter; rich, 

 generally elevated woodlands; common and reaching its greatest development on the western slopes of the 

 Alleghany mountains from West Virginia southward ; not common and of small size in the Gulf region and 

 Texas 



Wood light, hard, strong, close, straight-grained, compact, easily worked ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; 

 color, light brown or red, growing darker with exposure, the thin sap-wood yellow; specific gravity, 0.5822; ash, 

 0.15 ; largely used and esteemed in cabinet work, interior finish, etc., and now becoming scarce. 



The bark contains a bitter tonic principle, and infused with cold water generates a small percentage of 

 hydrocyanic acid ; employed as a tonic and sedative in cases of pulmonary consumption in the form of cold 

 infusions, sirups, and fluid extracts (Proc. Am. Phxr. Assoc, xxiii, 209. Glohley in Jour. Pharm. et Chimie, xv, 40. 

 Quibourt, Hist. Drogues, 7 ed. iii, 317. Pharm. Jour. 3 ser. iv, 44. Fliickiger & Ranhury, Pharmocographia, 224. 

 U. S. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 749. Nat. Dispensatory, 2ed. 1177) ; the bitter fruit used domestically in the preparation 

 of cherry brandy. 



Note. The closely-allied P. Virginiana of the north Atlantic region, a tall shrub, sometimes 6 to 8 meters in height, does not 

 assume arborescent habit. 



109. Prunus Capuli, Cavanilles, 



Sprengel, Syst. ii, 477. Schlechtendal in Linnsea, xiii, 89, 404. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 123. Hemsley, Bot. Am. -Cent, i, 367. 

 Watson in Proc. Am. Acad, zrli, 352. 



Cerasus CapolUn, De CandoUe, Prodr. ii, .539. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 515. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 713, f. 420. Bentham, 

 PI. Hartweg. 10. Lindley, Fl. Med. 232. Penn. Cycl. vi, 432. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N.America, i, 412. Gray in 

 Smithsonian Contrib. v, ."i4. 



Cerasus Capuli, Seringe in De Caudolle, Prodr. ii, 541. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 516. Spach, Hist. Veg. i, 422. 



P. CapolUn, Z-nccarini in Abhandl. Acad. Munich, ii, 345, t. 8. Eoemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 87. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary 

 Survey, C2. Busby in Hull. Toiroy Bot. Club, ix, 53. 



P. Canadensis, Mocifio & Sess^, PI. Mex. Icuu. inetl. 



