AND AGRICULTURAL CAPABILITIES. 91 



Eitflf-nia ( ), near dicJiotoma, but probably distinct. This was only seen at Cax- 



imbus Bay, and was called "naked- wood." 

 Eugenia (Stopper-wood). A small tree, in fruit. 

 Gnettards Blodyetti. Mostly a shrub. 



Eandia clusuffoUa (Seven-years' Apple). With flowers and fruit. 

 Sideroxylon padillnm (Mastic). A middle-sized tree. 

 tSideroxyloti padiUum, var. sphcerocarpum. A small tree. 

 Sideroxylon. A large tree. 



Gkrysophyllum mtfroophyllnm. 6 to <?0 feet high. 



Mimnsops Sieberi. A large tree. We found the trunk invariably hollow. 

 Bnmdia parrifoUa. A shrub or small tree. 



Jaquinia armillaris. A rather small tree with most curiously grained wood. 

 Myrsine Floridana. Mostly a shrub; rarely a small tree. 

 Ardisia Pickeringii. Mostly a shrub, but on the Keys a small tree. 

 Citliarexylon villosum (Fiddle-wood). Rarely a small tree. 



Avicenna oblongifolia (Black Mangrove). Only a tree among the Thousand Islands. 

 Avicennia tomentosa (Black Mangrove). At Cedar Keys only. 

 Pisonia obtusala. With male flowers. 

 Coccoloba Flondana.20 to 30 feet high. In fruit. 

 Coccoloba ubifera (Sea-side Grape). In fruit. 

 Persea Catesbaei.Xo flowers or fruit. 

 Drypetes crocea. A small tree. 

 JFicus aurea (Wild Fig). A large tree full of milky juice. It is also called gum-tree, aud 



the juice forms a kind of ludia rubber. 

 Ficus. Perhaps the same as the preceding. 

 (Silver Palmetto or Silver Cabbage Tree). The berries are white, but in the 



absence of flowers the genus is doubtful. It attains a height of 30 to 40 feet. It 



occurs first at Cape Romano, and is found sparingly on the mainland southward. It 



is more common on the Keys, but I never heard of it before. 

 Yucca aloifolia. I found this from Manatee southward, 15 to 25 feet high. 

 Pinus cJausa, X. sp. At Apalachicola. Dr. Eiigelmaim is doubtful. Perhaps it may 



be a variety of P. ino})8. 



ORANGE STATISTICS OF FLORIDA. 



Judge A. A. Knight, the supervisor of the Tenth Census for the State 

 of Florida, was, in addition to his other duties, intrusted with the task 

 of ascertaining the number of bearing orange trees in the State, and 

 their production for the year 1881. He has kindly permitted me to 

 take the following figures from t the papers in his office. Twenty-five 

 thousand circulars were issued, which elicited about 70 per cent, of re- 

 plies. Twenty-five of the thirty -nine counties in the State are embraced 

 in the report, fourteen failing to return replies. The deficiency in this 

 direction is conterbalauced by the supplement which closes the report- 

 It is expected that the yield of fruit will very rapidly increase from 

 this time forward, both from the large number of new groves coming into 

 bearing with each succeeding year, and the increased productiveness 

 Of the older trees. 



