68 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 



" There are some other varieties of these trees in the nurseries 

 near London, which, not having been examined, we shall omit 

 at present." Celtis occidental is. 



50. Jugldndetz. Juglans regia, four varieties of; nigra. 

 Carya, sp. (" Virginian walnut with long furrow'd fruit"), sp. 

 ("the hickery, or white Virginian walnut"), sp. (" the small 

 white Virginian walnut, or hickery"). 



51. Salicineue. Salix alba, pentandra, sp. (" the long-leav'd 

 sweet [scented leaf] willow"), babylonica, fnigilis, ?mygdalina 

 or ?triandra, vitellina, ? caprea ; ? c., round-leaved; c., round- 

 leaved-variegated. Populus canescens, alba ; a., variegated- 

 leaved ; tremula, nigra. 



52. T&tulinete. ZJetula alba, Alnus glutinosa and ? oblongata. 



53. CupidiferfC. Quercus 7 x lex, four varieties of; coccifera, 

 ; R. 9 leaf white-variegated ; alba, "evergreen oak with 



broad leaves like the common oak," " the scarlet oak," " the 

 Virginian chestnut-leav'd oak," " the Virginian willow-leav'd 

 oak," " the chinquapin oak," " the Spanish cut-leav'd oak ; " 

 Suber, " the broad- leav'd cork tree ; " S. 9 " the narrow-leav'd 

 cork tree." Carpinus ^etulus ; Z?., striped-leaved ; O'strya vul- 

 garis and virginica; Castanea vesca; v., leaf elegantly variegated ; 

 piimila ; -Fagus sylvatica ; s., yellow-variegated-leaved ; Corylus 

 -<4vellana, and five varieties of it. 



54. Platd?ic<z. Platanus orientalis, occidentals, ? cerifolia ; 

 Liquidambar styraciflua. 



55. Myr^^tR Myrica Gcile^ cerifera, carolinensis. 



56. Coniferce. Cedrus Libani, iarix europae s a: e., with the 

 rudiments of the cone white ; Pin us sylvestris, Pinaster, sp. 

 (" Pinus; Americana, foliis praelongis, subinde ternis, conis 

 plurimis confertim nascentibus"), Pinea, tftrobus, palustris ; 

 ^f x bies excelsa, Picea, sp. or var. (" Abies; minor, pectinatis 

 foliis, Virginiana, conis parvis subrotundis. Pink. Aim. 2. Phyt. 

 tab. ] 21. f. 1."); sp. or var. (" Abies; Piceae foliis, brevibus ; 

 conis minimis. Hand.")', nigra; balsamifera, sp. or var. (" Abies; 

 taxi folio; fructti longissimo, deorsum inflexo. Long-con'd 

 Cornish firr"); Schubertza disticha, Cuprdssus sempervirens ; 

 ? s., horizontalis ; Thuja occidentalis, occidentalis with its leaves 

 elegantly variegated ; Taxus baccata ; b., leaf variegated ; b., 

 *' the broad shining-leav'd yew;" t /uniperus comimmis, suecica, 

 virginiana, ? virginiana humilis ;bermudiana, A^abina; , va- 

 riegated-leaved ; ? , " the berry-bearing or upright savin." 



The introducers of foreign trees and shrubs in the early part 

 of the eighteenth century are much indebted to Mark Catesby, 

 an enthusiastic naturalist, who travelled in North America from 

 1712 to 1726, when he returned to England, made himself 

 master of the art of etching, and published his splendid work, 

 containing the natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the 



