CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 93 



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N. angulosa, Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, iv, 507; 111. iii, 442, t. a'Sl, f. 2. Roemer & Schultes, Syst. v, 578. 



N. palustris, Salisbury, Prodr. 175- 



N. tomentosa, Michaux, Pi. Bor.-Am. ii, 259. Persoon, Syn. ii, 015. Willdeuow, Spec, iv, 1113.- Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept.i, 

 177. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 236. Ecemer & Schultes, Syst. v, 577. Elliott, Sk. ii, 685. Sprengel, Syst. i, 832. Audubon, 

 Birds, t. 13. Dietrich, Syn. i, 879. Eaton & Wright, Hot. 329. Darby, Bot. S. States, 493. 



If. angulisans, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 259. Dietrich, Syn. i, 879. Spach, Hist. Veg. x, 465. 



N. grar^identata, Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii, 252, t. 19 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. ii, 34, t. 112. Loudon, Arboretum, iii, 

 1319, f. 1200, 1201. Lesqnereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 364. 



If. capitafa var. grandidentata, Browne, Trees of America, 426. 



LARGE TUPELO. COTTON GUM. TUPELO GUM. 



Southern Virginia, south uear the coast to the valley of the Saint Mary's river, Georgia, through the Gulf 

 states to the valley of the Neches river, Texas, and through Arkansas and southern and southeastern Missouri to 

 the valley of the lower Wabash river, Illinois. 



A large tree, 21 to 30 meters in height, with a trunk 0.90 to 1.20 meter in diameter ; deep swamps and river 

 bottoms subject to frequent overflow ; one of the largest and most common trees of the bottom lands of the lower 

 Mississippi river basin, and reaching its greatest development in the cypress swamps of western Louisiana and 

 eastern Texas, near the coast. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact, unwedgeable; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, light 

 brown, or often nearly white; specific gravity, 0.5194; ash, 0.70; used in turnery, largely for woodenware, broom 

 handles, and wooden shoes ; that of the root for the floats of nets, etc., as a substitute for cork. 



CAPJIIFOLIAOE^. 



156. Sambucus glauca, Nnttali; 



Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, ii, 13. Walpers, Rep. ii, 453. Torrey in Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 12; Ives' Rep. 15; Bot. Mex. Boundary 

 Survey, 71. Gray in Smithsonian Contrib.v,66; Proc. Am. Acad. vii,387; Syn. Fl. N.America, i^, 9. Watson in King's Rep. v, 

 134. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 16. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 278. Hall in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, 88. Rothrock in 

 Wheeler's Rep. vi, 135, 363. 



S. Californica, Hort. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 72. 



1 8. Mexicana, Newberry in Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 75 [not Presl], 



ELDER. 



Valley of the Fraser river and "Vancouver's island, British Columbia, southward through California to the 

 Mexican boundary, extending west to the Blue mountains of Oregon and the Wahsatch range, Utah. 



A .small tree, sometimes 8 to 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.45 meter in diameter, or toward its 

 northern limits reduced to a large shrub ; confined to valleys, in dry, gravelly soil. 



Wood lightj soft, weak, coarse-grained, checking in drying ; medullary rays numerous, rather conspicuous ; 

 color, yellow tiuged with browu, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, O..j037; ash, 1.57. 



The large blue-black fruit edible and sometimes cooked. 



157. Sambucus Mexicana, Presl, 



J loir. Hu;uk. De Candollo, Prodr. iv, 322. Don, Miller's Diet, iii, 437. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 1030. Gray in Smithsouiau Contrib. 

 v, 66; Syn. Fl. N. America, i'^, 9. Torrey in Pucilic E. E. Rep. iv, 95; Bot. Me?. Boundary Survey, 71. Brewer & Watson, Bot. 

 California, i, 278. Rothrock in Wheeler's Rep. vi, 135. Hemsley, Bot. Ani.-Cent. ii, 1. 



8. glauca, Bentham, PI. Hartweg. 313 [uot Nuttall]. 



8. Vtllt^tina, Durand & Hilgard in Jotir. Philadelphia Acad, new ser. iii, 39. 



