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185. Diospyros Texana, Scheele, 



Linnaea, xxii, 145; Roomer, Texas, 441; Appx. 763. Walpers, Ann. iii, 14. Torrey, Bot. Mex. Boundary Survey, 109. Cooper la 

 Smithsouian Rep. 1858, 2G6. Young, Bot. Texas, 376. Hiern in Trans. Cambridge Phil. Soc. xii', 238. Gray, Hall's PI. Texas, 15; 

 Syn. Fl. N. America, ii', 70. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 18. Hemsley, Bot. Am.-Cent. ii, 300. 



BLACK PERSIMMON. MEXICAN PERSIMMON. CHAPOTB. 



Western Texas, Matagorda bay to the valley of the Concho river ; southward into northern Mexico. 



A small tree, 4 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.30 meter in diameter, or more often a low 

 shrub ; not rare, and reaching its greatest development in Texas along the rich bottoms of the Guadalupe river ; 

 borders of prairies, in rich soil ; in Mexico more common and of larger size. 



Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact, satiny, taking a beautiful polish, containing few minute, 

 scattered, open ducts ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, nearly black, often streaked with yellow, the thick 

 sap-wood clear bright yellow; specific gravity, 0.8460; ash, 3.33; used in turnery for the handles of tools, etc., 

 suitable for wood-engraving, and probably the best substitute among American woods for box-wood. 



The small black fruit sweet and insipid. 



STYRACACE^. 



186. Symplocos tinctoria, L'Heritier, 



Trans. Linnnan Soc. i, 176. Willdenow, Spec, iii, 1436. Alton, Hort. Kew. iv, 419. Sprengel, Syst. iii, 339. Don, Miller's Diet, ir, 

 2. A. De Candolle, Prodr. viii, 254. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 253. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 272. Curtis in Rep. 

 Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 65. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 374. Wood, CI. Book, 499; Bot. & Fl. 209. 

 Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 310; Syn. Fl. N. America, ii', 71. Young, Bot. Texas, 374. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 18. 



Hopea tinctoria, Llnnasns, Mant. 105. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 189. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 42. Persoon, Syn. ii, 72. 

 Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i, 217. Gajrtner f. Fmct. Snppl. 146, t. 209, f. 2. Robin, Voyages, iii, 419. Michaux f. Hist. 

 Arb. Am.iii,61,t. 9; N.American Sylva, 3 ed. iii, 45, 1. 117. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 451. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 83. 

 Elliott, Sk. ii, 173. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 176. Spach, Hist. Veg. ix, 420. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 272. Darby, Bot. 

 8. States, 425. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 388. 



HORSE SUGAR. SWEET LEAF. 



Southern Delaware, south to about latitude 30*^ in Florida, and west through the Gulf states to western 

 Louisiana and southern Arkansas (Malvern, Texarkana, Letterman). 



A small tree, 6 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.20 to 0.25 meter in diameter, or often a low shrub; 

 borders of cypress swamps or in deep, damp, shaded woods. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, checking in drying; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, light 

 red, or often nearly white, the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.5325; ash, 0.68. 



Leaves sweet, greedily eaten by cattle and horses, and yielding, as does also the bark, a yellow dye. 



187. Halesia diptera, Linnseus, 



Spec. 2 ed. 636. Marshall, Arbnstnm, 57. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 66. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 849; Enum. 496; Berl. Baumz. 171. Cavanilles, 

 Diss, vi, 338, t. 187. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 40. Persoon, Syn. ii, 4. Alton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. iii, 143. Nouveau Duhamel, v, 

 144. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 450. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 83. Elliott, Sk. i, 508. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 66. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 

 1172. Sprengel, Syst. iii, 84. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 164. Don, Miller's Diet, iv, 7. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 1191, f. 1014. Spach, 

 Hist. Veg. ix, 426. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 260. A. De Candolle, Prodr. viii, 270. Miers, Contrib. i, 193. Darby, Bot. S. States, 

 425. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 253.-^Chapman, Fl. S. States, 271. Wood, CI. Book, 499; Bot. & Fl. 209. Koch, 

 Dendrologie, ii, 201. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 18. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. America, ii', 71. 



H. reticulata, Buckley in Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 1860, 444. * 



SNOW-DROP TREE, SILVER-BELL TREE. 



South Carolina to northern Florida, near the coast, and west through the lower region of the Gulf states to 

 eastern Texas and Garland county, Arkansas {Harvey). 



A small tree, sometimes 6 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.20 meter in diameter, or often a shrub 

 sending up many clustered stems from the root; borders of swamps, in low, wet woods. 



Wood light, soft, strong, very close-graiued, compact; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, light brown, the 

 sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.5705; ash, 0.42. 



