CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 165 



SPECKLED ALDER. HOAEY ALDEE. BLACK ALDBE. 



Newfoundland to the eastern base of the Rocky mountains, south to northern Kew England, Wisconsin, " 

 Minnesota, and eastern J^ebraska ; in Europe. 



A small tree, 6 to 7 meters in height, with a trunk 0.10 to 0.15 meter in diameter, or more often a tall, branching 

 shrub ; bordei s of streams and swamps. 



A form with leaves green and glabrous on both sides or slightly pubescent, extending through the mountain 

 ranges of the Pacific region from the Saskatchewan and British Columbia to Few Mexico and the southern Sierra 

 Nevadas of California, is 



var. virescens, Watson, Bot. California, ii, 81. 



A. ineana, var. glauca, Kegel in Mem. See. Nat. Moscow, xix, 154, in part ; Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow, xxxviii^ 433, in part; . 



De CandoUe, Prodr. xvi^ 189, in part. Watsou in King's Rep. v, 32(5 [not Alton] ; PI. Wheeler, 17. Eothroek, PI. 

 Wheeler, 50 ; Wlieelor's Rep. vi, 239. Macoun in Geological Rep. Canada, 1875-'76, 210. 



A. serrulata, var. rugosa, Kegel in Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow, xxxviii*, 432, in part ; De Candolle, Prodr. xvi^, 188, in part. 



Wood light, soft, close-grained, checking in drying ; medullary rays numerous, broad ; color, light brown, the 

 sap-wood nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.4607 ; ash, 0.42 ; preferred and largely used in northern IS^ew England 

 in the final baking of bricks, and occasionally, as well as that of A. serrulata, in the manufacture of gunpowder. 



SALIC ACEiE 



306. Salix nigra, Marshall, 



Aibustum, 139. Muhlenberg in Nene Schriften Gesell. Nat. Fr. Berlin, iv, 237, t. 4, f. 5 (Ann. Bot. ii, 65, t. 5, f. 5). Willdenow, Spec, iv, 

 657; Enum. 1003; Berl. Baumz. 2 ed. 426. Persoon, Syn. ii,599. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 324, t. 5, f. 1 ; N. American Sylva, 

 3 ed. iii, 64, 1. 125, f. 1. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 614. Poiret, Suppl. iv, 61. Eaton, Manual, 118; 6 ed. 320. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 231; 

 Sylva, i, 79 ; 2 ed. i, 94. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 180. EUiott, Sk, ii, 670. Sprengel, Syst. i, 100. Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 370 ; Fl. 

 N. York, ii, 209. Forbes, Sal.Woburn. 280. W. Koch, Comment. 17. Beck, Bot. 320. Trautvetter in Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, iii, 

 614. Loudon, Arboretum, iii, 1529, 1604, f. 8. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 148. Barratt, Sal. Am. No. 19. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 

 408. Dietrich, Syn. v, 419. Seringe, Fl. Jard. ii, 35. Emensou Trees Massachusetts, 271 ; 2 ed. i, 307 & t. Darlington, Fl. 

 Cestrica, 3 ed. 279. Andersson in Ofr. af. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1858, 114 (Proc. Am. Acad, iv, 53) ; Kongl. Sven. Akad. Handl. vi, 19, 

 f. 15; De CandoUe, Prodr. xvi=, 200. Darby, Bot. S. States, 506. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 266. Walpers, Ann. v, 744. 

 Chapm.an, Fl. S. States, 430. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 186(4 iii, 75. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas 

 389. Wood, CI. Book, 6.54 ; Bot.& Fl. 310. Porcher, Resources S.Forests, 334. Eugelmann in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. uewser. xii, 209. 

 Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 460 ; Hall's PI. Texas, 21. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 513. Young, Bot. Texas, 514. Macoun in Geological 

 Eep. Canada, 1875-76, 210. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 28. Bebb in Bot. California, ii, 83. Sears in Bull. Essex Inst, xiii, 181. 

 Rldgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1882, 86. Hemsley, Bot. Am. -Cent, iii, 180 



S. pentandra, Walter, Fl. Carolinlaua, 243. 



8. GaroUniana, Michaux, F!. Bor.-Am. ii, 226. Lamarck, Diet, vi, 662. Poiret, Suppl. v, 62. 



S'. Eoustoniana, Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 614. Poiret, Suppl. v, G8.Sprengel, Syst. i, 107. Elliott, Sk. ii,670. Trantvettt 

 in Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, -iii, 615. Forbes, Sal. Woburn. 21, t. 21. Eaton & Wright, Bet. 409. 



S.falcata, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 614 [not HBK.]. Poiret, Snppl. v, 70. Sprengel, Syst. i, 107. Forbes, Sal.Woburn. 

 279. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 320. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 149. Barratt, Sal. Am. IJo. 21. Dietrich, Syn. v, 420. 



f S. ambigua, Pnrsh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii , 617. Forbes, Sal. Woburu. 282. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 321. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 409. 



S. ligustrina, Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii, 326, t. 5, f. 2 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. iii, 65, t. 125, f. 2. Poiret, Suppl. v, 61. 



8. Purshiana, Sprengel, Syst. iii, 608. Beck, Bot. 320. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 2 ed. 560. 



8. flavovirens, Homemann in Cat. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. ii, 11. 



? S. cordata, var. falcata, Torrey; Compend. Fl. N. States, 370. 



8. nigra, var. falcata, Torrey, Fl. N. York, ii, 209. Carey in Gray, Manual N. States, 1 ed. 429. Darlington, Fl. Costrioa, 3 

 eU.280. 



