CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 85 



Cratccgus spieata, Lamarck, Diet, i, 84. Desl'ontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 148. Nouveau Dnhamel, iv, 132. Poiret, Snppl. i, 292. 



Mespilus Canadensis, var. obovaUs, Michaux,Fl.Bor.-Am. i, 291. 



Pyrus ovalis, Willdenow, Spec, ii, 1014 ; Berl. Baumz. 323. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 340. Schrank, PI. Labrador, 26. Bigelow, 

 Fl. Boston. .Sed. 207. 



Aronia ovalis, Torrey, Fl. U. S. 47D ; Compend. Fl. N. States, 203. Eaton, Manual. 6 ed. 29. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 135. 



Vl . oralis, De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 632. Meyer, PI. Labrador, 81. Hookor, Fl. Bor.-Am. i,202, in part. Don, Miller'sDict.ii, 

 " 604. Beck, Bot. 1 12. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 85. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 876, f. 632. 



A. intermedia, Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 85. Wenzig in Linnsea, xxxiii, 112. 



A. oblongifolia, Eoemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 147. 



A. spieata, Decaisne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. x, 135, t. 9, f. 5. 



Wood heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, close-grained, checking somewhat in seasoning, satiny, susceptible of 

 a good polish ; mednllary rays very uumerons, obscure ; color, dark brown often tinged with red, the sap-wood 

 much lighter ; specific gravity, 0.7838 ; ash, 0.55 ; the small fruit sweet and edible. 



Note. The closely allied Amelanchier alnifolia, Nuttall, a low shrub, is widely distributed over the mountain ranges of the interior 

 Pacific region. 



HAMAMELAOE^ 



138. Hamamelis Virginica, Linnaeus, 



Spec. 2 ed. 124. Marshall, Arbustum, 58. Du Eoi, Harbk. i, 423. Wangenheim, Amer. 89, t. 29, f. 62. Lamarck, Diet, iii, 68 ; 111., i, 

 350, t. 88. Alton, Hort. Kew. i, 107; 2 ed. i, 275. Scbknhr, Handb. i, 88, t. 27. Willdenow, Spec, i, 701 ; Enum. 171 ; Berl. Baumz. 

 172. Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. i, 100. Persoon, Syn. i, 150. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii,29. Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. i, 116. Nuttall, 

 Genera, i, 107. Nouveau Duhamel,vii, 207, t. 60. Elliott, Sk. i, 219. Eoemer & Schultes, Syst. iii, 483.- Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 598. 

 Barton, Fl. N. America, iii, 21, t. 78. Torrey, Fl. U. S. 192; Compend. Fl. N. States, 86; Fl. N. York, i, 260. Guimpel, Otto & 

 Hayne, Abb. Holz. 95, t. 75. Sprengel, Syst. i,491. Eafinesque, Med. Bot. i, 227, f. 45. De Candolle, Prodr. iv, 268. Hooker, Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. i, 275; Companion Bot. Mag. i, 48. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 396, f. C9. Beck, Bot. 152. Eaton, Manual 6 ed. 164. Spach, 

 Hist, Vog. viii, 79. Dietrich, Syn. i, 550. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 597. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 1007, f. 756, 757. 

 Eaton & Wright, Bot. 260. Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 63. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 410; 2 ed. ii, 473 & t. Darby, Bot. S. 

 States, 328. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 98. Agardh, Theor. & Syst. PI. t. 13, f. 7. Schnizlein, Icon. 1. 167, f. 18-25, 27-29. 

 Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. 2 ser. xxiv, 438 ; 3 ser. v, 144; Manual N. States, 5 ed. 173. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 157. Curtis in Eep. 

 Geological Surv. N. Carolina, iii, 105. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Eep. Arkansas, 362. Wood, CI. Book, 375; Bot. & Fl. 120. 

 Engelmaun in Trans. Am. PhU. Soc. new ser. xii, 193. Porcher, Eesources S. Forests, 58. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 458. Bai)lou in 

 Adansouia, jt, 123; HUt. PI. ui, 389, f. 462-464. Young, Bot. Texas, 291. Maput & Decaisne, Bot. English ed. 408 & f. 



H. dioica, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 255. Gmeliu, Syst. Veg. i, 281. 



H. androgyna, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 255. Gmelin, Syst. Veg. i, 282. 



S. corylifolia, Moench, Meth. 273. 



H. macrophylla, Pnrsh. Fl. Am. Sept. i, 116. Poiret, Suppl. v, 698. Elliott, Sk. i, 220. Eoemer & Schultes, Syst. iii, 483. 

 Eafinesque, Med. Bot. i, 230. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 164. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 396. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 261. 



Trilopus Virginiana, nigra, rotundifolia, and dentata, Eafinesque, New Sylva, 15-17. 



E. Virginiana, var. parvifolia, Nuttall, Genera, i, 107. Torrey, Fl.U. S.193; Compend. Fl. N. States, 87. Don, MUler's 

 Diet, iii, 396. Beck, Bot. 152. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 597. 



H. parvifolia, nadnesqne, Med. Bot. i,230. 



Trilopus parvifolia, Eafinesque, New Sylva, 17. 



WITCH HAZEL. 



Northern New England and southern Ontario to Wisconsin, south through the Atlantic region to northern 

 Florida and eastern Texas. 



A small tree, exceptionally 7 to 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.37 meter in diameter, or more often 

 a tall Bhrub throwing up many stems from the ground; common; rich, rather damp woodlands, reaching ita 

 greatest development in the region of the southern Alleghany mountains. 



