192 WOODS OF COMMERCE. 



hard, straight-grained, resembling inferior Mahogany, but affected 

 by shakes and splitting in seasoning, taking a good polish, little 

 attacked by insects. Used for furniture, internal fittings, masts, 

 spars, staves, and shingles. Cdrapa prdcera DC., the "Toulou- 

 couna " of Senegambia, is a very similar wood. 



Crow's Ash. See Flindosa. 



Cuamara. See Tonka-bean. 



Cucumber-tree (Magndlia acumindta L. : Order Magnolidcece). 

 "Mountain Magnolia." Eastern United States. Height up to 

 100 ft.; diam. 4 ft. S.G. 409. W 29-23. E671 kilos. Sapwood 

 white ; heart yellowish-brown, soft, light, close-grained, moderately 

 compact and durable, taking a satiny polish. Closely resembling 

 and probably often confounded with Tulip-wood (Liriocttndron 

 tulipifera), this wood is used for turnery, wainscot, packing-cases, 

 and cheap furniture. [See also Papaw.] 



Cudgerie. See Flindosa. 



Cypre, Bois de (Cdrdia Gerascdnthus Jacq. : Order Borraginece). 

 Tropical America. "Spanish Elm," "Dominica Kosewood," 

 " Bois de Rhodes." Dark, open-grained, soft. W 47'69. E 553. 

 / 2-73. fc 2-16. fs -428. Used in cabinet-work. 



Cypress (Cuprous sempervirens L. : Order Cupressinece). Medi- 

 terranean region, Asia Minor, and Persia. Height up to 100 ft.; 

 diam. sometimes 7 ft. S.G. 620. Reddish, fragrant, moderately 

 hard, very fine- and close-grained, and virtual^ indestructible. 

 Used by the ancient Egyptians for mummy-cases ; for the coffins 

 of the Popes ; in Assyria and in Crete for shipbuilding ; for the 

 gates of Constantinople destroyed by the Turks in 1453, eleven 

 hundred years after their construction ; and for the doors of St. 

 Peter's, which were quite sound when replaced, about the same 

 time and after a similar duration, by brass. Used, according to 

 Evelyn, for harps and organ-pipes, and also for vine-props ; but 

 now seldom employed. 



Cypress, Bald, Black, Deciduous, Red, Swamp or White 

 (Taxddium distichum Richard : Order TaxodUce). Swamps of the 

 Southern United States. Height 80 100 or more ft.; diam. 6 8 

 or 13 ft., but tapering. Wood lighter and less *esinous on low 



