70 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



WILD OEANGE. MOCK OSANGE. WrLD PEACH. 



North Carolina, sonth, near the coast, to bay Biscayne, Florida, and southern Alabama, west, along the Gulf 

 coast, to the valley of the Guadalupe river, Texas. 



A small tree, evergreen, 10 to 12 meters in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.30 meter in diameter; 

 common and reaching its greatest development in the rich, light, deep soil of the bottoms of eastern Texas, here 

 often covering extensive tracts known as "i)each brakes"; not common in the eastern Gulf states. 



Wood heavy, hard, strong, close-grained, checking badly in seasoning, susceptible of a good polish ; medullary 

 rays numerous, thin; color, light reddish-brown, or, more rarely, rich dark brown, the sap-wood lighter; specific 

 gravity, 0.8G88; ash, 0.41. 



Generally planted in the southern states as an ornamental and hedge plant; foliage, bark, and fruit contain 

 prussic acid, the leaves, especially when partly withered, oftn proving fatal to animals browsing upon them. 



112. Prunus sphaerocarpa, Swartz, 



Prodr. 81; FLInd. Oco. li, 927 [not Michaux]. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 987. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 666. Persoon, Syn. ii, 34. Don, 

 Miller's Diet, ii, 516. Sehlechtendal in Linnsea, xiii, 87. Walpers, Rep. ii, 10. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 2;U. 

 Chapman, Fl. S. States, Suppl. 620. 



Cerasus splucrocarpa, Loiseleor in NouveauDnhamel.v, 4. Seringein De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 540. London, Arboretam ii, 

 721. Bot. Mag. t. 3141. Spach, Hist. Veg. 1,421. . 



Semi-tropical Florida, western shores of bay Biscayne (Gurtiss); in the West Indies.. 



A small tree, in Florida not exceeding 6 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.15 meter in diameter; high 

 rocky woods or, more rarely, along the borders of streams and ponds; rare. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, checking badly in drying, containing many very small open ducts; layers 

 of annual growth and medullary rays obscure; color, light, clear red, the sap-wood pale yellow; specific gravity, 

 0.8998; ash, 0.87. 



113. Prunus ilicifolia, Walpers, 



Eep. ii, 10. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 43. ^Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 63; Bot. Wilkes Exped. 285. Brewer & Watson, Bot. 

 California, i, 168; ii, 443. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 13. 



Gerastis ilicifolia, Nuttall in Hooker & Amott, Bot. Beechey, 340, t. 83. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 411. Nnttall, 

 Sylva, ii, 16, t. 47 ; 2 ed. i, 165, t. 47. Torrey in Emory's Eep. 139; Pacific E. E. Rep. iv, 83. Paxton, Brit Fl. Garden, 

 iii, 44, f. 254. Walpers, Ann. iv, 654. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 18.58, 259. Kellogg in Proc. California Acad, ii, 

 22. Bolander in Proc. California Acad, iii, 79; iv, 22. London Garden, 1873, 131 & fig. 



Laurocerasus ilicifolia, Rcemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 92. 



isLAY. 



California, (Joast ranges from San Francisco bay south to the southern boundary of the state, extending to 

 the western slopes of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains. 



A small tree, evergreen, often 9 to 12 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.60 meter in diameter, or when 

 distant from the coast often reduced to a low shrub. 



Wood very heavj'^, hard, strong, close-grained, checking in seasoning, satiny, susceptible of a beautiful polish, 

 containing many regularly-distributed rather small open ducts; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, bright 

 reddish brown, the sap-wood much lighter; specific gravity, 0.9803; ash, 0.78; furnishing valuable fuel. 



114. Vauquelinia Torreyi, Watson, 



Proc. Am. Acad, xi, 147. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 169. Maximowicz in Act. Hort. St. Petersburg, V, 237. Hemsley, Bot. 

 Am.-Cent. i, 370. 



Spircea Galifornica, Torrey in Emory's Eep. 140. 



V. corymbosa, Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 64 [not Correa]. 



Arizona, high mountains near the Gila {Emory), summits of the Santa Catalina mountains {Pringle, Lemmon); 

 in Sonora. 



A small tree in the Santa Catalina mountains, 4 to 6 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.20 meter in 

 diameter; dry slopes and rocky bluffs at 2,700 to 4,000 feet elevation, granitic soil; generally hollow and decayed. 



Wood very heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact, susceptible of a beautiful polish; medullary rays 

 numerous, thin; color, rich dark brown streaked with red, the sap-wood yellow; specific gravity, 1.1374; ash, 1.45. 



