CATALOGUE OF. FOREST TREES. 69 



WILD CHEKRY. 



Apache and Gnadalupe mountains, Texas, west through southern New Mexico and Arizona to the sontheSm 

 elopes of the San Francisco mountains ; southward through northern New Mexico, and in Peru. 



A small tree, in the United States, rarely 12 meters in height, with a trunk often 0.30 meter in diameter j 

 bottoms of cartons and mountain valleys, generally between 5,000 and 7,000 feet elevation. 



Wood heavy, moderately hard, close-grained, compact ; medullary rays very numerous, thin ; color, brown, or 

 often bright, clear red, the sap-wood nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.7879 ; ash, 0.20. 



110. Prunus deraissa, Walpera, 



Rep. ii, 10. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 43. Bentham, PI. Hartweg. 307. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 63. Watson in King's Eep. v, 80; 

 PI. Wheeler, 8. Porter in Hayden's Rep. 1871, 481. Coulter in Haydeu's Eep. 1872, 764. Rothrock, PI. Wheeler, 37. Brandegeein 

 Hayden's Rep. 187,7, 236. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 167. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. Hall in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, 

 ii, 86. Maconn in Geological Rep. Canada, 1875-'76, 194. Hemsley, Bot. Am. -Cent, i, 368. 



Cerasus serotina, Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 169, in part. 



Gerasus demissa, Nuttall in Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 411. Gray in Mem. Am. Acad, new ser. iv', 40. Durand in 

 Jour. Philadelphia Acad. 1855,87. Torrey in Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 83. ^Newberry in Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 73. Cooper 

 in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 259 ; Pacific R. R. Rep. xii^, 59. 



Padus demissa, Roemer, Syn. Men. iii, 87. 



P. Virginiana, var. demissa, Torrey, Bot. Wilkes Exped. 284. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad, viii, 381. 



WILD CHEERY. 



Vancouver's island east to the western slopes of the Rocky mountains of Montana, south through the Pacific 

 region; in Sonora. 



A small tree, sometimes 7 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.45 meter in diameter, or more often a 

 low shrub ; reaching its greatest development in the rich valleys of southern Oregon and northern California, near 

 the coast; in southern California, and east of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges, a low shrub confined to high, 

 mountain valleys. 



Wood heavy, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, conspicuous ; color, light 

 brown, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.6951 ; ash, 0.50. 



HI. Prunus Caroliniana, Alton, 



Hort. Kew. ii, 163 ; 2 ed. iii, 196. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 987. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 667. Persoon, Syn. ii, 34. Desfontaines, Hist. 

 Arb. ii,203. Nnttall, Genera, i, 302. Sprengel, Neue Entdeck. i, 304; Syst. ii, 478. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 71. Elliott, Sk. i, 540. 

 Audubon, Birds, t. 159, 190. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 286. Schlechtendal in Linnsea, xiii, 89. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 43. Chapman, 

 Fl. S. States, 120. Curtis in Rep. Geological Snrv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 57. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 103. Kooh, Dendrologie, i, 124. 

 Young, Bot. Texas, 252. Gray, Hall's PI. Texas, 9. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. 



P. Carolina, Miller, Diet. Du Roi, Harbk. ii, 198. 



P. serrati/olia, Marshall, Arbustum, 114. 



P. Lxisitantca, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 146. 



Gerasus GaroUmana, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 285. Nonveau Duhamel, v, 5. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 156, t. 7; 

 N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 150, t. 89. Seringe in De CandoUe, Prodr. u, 540. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 516. Spaoh, 

 Hist. Veg. i, 420. Penn. Cycl. vi, 432. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 720, f. 423. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 411. 

 Eaton & Wright, Bot. 190. Browne, Trees of America, 272. Darby, Bot. S. States, 299. Griffith, Med. Bot. 291. 

 Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 252. Poroher, Resources S. Forests, 171. Wood, CI. Book, 326. 



P. sempervirens, Willdenow, Ennm. Snppl. 33. 



fBumelia serrata, Porsh, Fl. Am. Sept. 155. Reamer & Sohultes, Syst. iv, 498. 



fAchras serrate, Poiret, Snppl. v, 36. 



Leptocarpa Garoliniana, Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 18; 2 ed. i, 167. 

 Ghimanthus amygdalinus, Rafinesqno, Fl. Ludoviciana, 159. 

 Laurocerasus Garoliniana, Roemer, Syn. Men. iii, 90. 



