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Sidtroxylon lycioides, LinnoMis, Ilort. Cliff. 488 (excl. hab.). Lamarck, Diet, i, 246; 111. ii,42. Aiton.Hort. Kew. i,262; 3 

 ed. ii, 13. WlUdeuow, Spec, i, 1090. Michaiix, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 122. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1, 155. Jaume St. Hilaire, 

 Fl. & Pom. Am. Franc, t. 81. 



Sideroxylon decandrum, Liumens, Mant. 48. VVilldeno-w, Spec, i, 1091. 



JSyderoxylon Iceve, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 100. 



IRON WOOD. SOUTHERN BUCKTHORN. 



Coast of Vitginia and southern Illinois, south to Mosquito inlet and Caloosa river, Florida, and through 

 southern Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas to the valley of the Eio Concho, Texas. 



A small tree, sometimes 9 to 12 meters in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 0.15 meter in diameter; low, 

 rich soil, or often, in the Atlantic and Gulf states, a low, semi-prostrate shrub, described as 



Var. reclinatum, Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America, ii', 68. 



Sideroxylon reclinatum, Michaux,Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 122. 



B. reclinata, Ventenat, Cholx, t. 22. Persoon, Syn.i,237. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 155. Eoemer & Schultes, Syst. iv, 496. 

 Elliott, Sk. i, 287. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 60. Dietrich, Syn. i, 621. Don, Miller's Diet, iv, 30. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 

 1193. A. De CandoUe, Prodr. viii, 190. Darby, Hot. S. States, 428. Wood, CI. Book, 501 ; Bot. & Fl. 210. 



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

 yellow, the sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.7467 ; ash, 0.81. 



182. Bumelia cuneata, Swartz, 



FL Ind. Occ. i, 496. Persoon, Syn. i, 237. Roemer & Schultes, Syst. iv, 498. Sprengel, Syst. i, 665. Don, Miller'sDiot. iv, 30. Dietrich, 

 Syn. i, 621. Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 401. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America, ii', 68. Hemaley, Bot. Am.-Cent. ii, 297. 



Achras cuneifolia, Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, vi, 534. 



B. angustifolia, Nuttall, Sylva, iii, 38, t. 93 ; 2 ed. ii, 106, t. 93. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 265. 



Sideroxylon cuneatum, A. De Candolle, Prodr. viii, 181. 



B. parvifoUa, A. De Candolle, Prodr. viii, 190. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 275. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 19. 



B. myrsinifolia, A. De Candolle, Prodr. viii, 192. 



B. reclinata, Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 109 [not Ventenat]. 



ants' wood. DOWNWARD PLUM. SAFFRON PLUTVt. 



A small tree, rarely exceeding 4 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.30 meter in diameter. 



Semi-tropical Florida, Merritt's island, Indian river, and southward to the southern keys, not rare; west coast. 

 Cedar Keys to cape Eomano, rare; rocky shores and in the interior of low, barren keys; Texas, valley of the 

 lower Eio Grande, Eoss to Laredo, and southward into northern Mexico ; in the West Indies. 



Wood heavy, hard, not strong, very close-grained, compact, satiny, susceptible of a beautiful polish; medullary 

 rays numerous, thin; color, light brown or orange, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.7959; ash, 1.90. 



183. Mimusops Sieberi, A. De Candolle, 

 Prodr. viii, 204. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 275. Vascy, Cat. Forest Trees, 18. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America, ii', 69. 

 Achras Zapotilla, var. parvijiora, Nuttall, Syha, iii, 28, t. 90 ; 2 ed. ii, 97, t. 90. 

 M. dissecta, Grisebach, Fl. British West Indies, 400, in part. 

 Achras mammosa, Siober, Pi. Trin. No. 33 [not Linnfflus nor Bonpland]. 



WILD DILLY. 



Semi-tropical Florida, on the southern keys, common ; in the West Indies. 



A small, low, gnarled tree, sometimes 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.40 meter in diameter; generally 

 hollow and defective. 



Wood very heavy, hard, strong, close-grained, inclined to check in drying, susceptible of a beautiful polish; 

 medullary rays numerous, very obscure ; color, rich, very dark brown, the sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 1.0838 ; 

 aah, 2.61. 



