250 
(Collins); Delaware (Phinney); Fountain (Brown); Franklin 
(Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Jay (M’Caslin); Jefferson (Coulter); 
Knox (Ridgway); Kosciusko (Clark) and (Scott); Lake (Higley 
and Radden); Miami (Gorby); vicinity of New Albany (Clapp); 
Noble (Van Gorder); Parke (Hobbs); Posey (Schneck); Steuben 
(Bradner); Wayne (Petry and Markle). 
Additional records are: Monroe (Blatchley); Montgomery (Kv- 
ans); Posey (MacDougal and Wright); Putnam (Cook), (Grimes) 
and (Lewis and Bridges); Tippecanoe (Coulter) and (Dorner); 
Blackford, Clark, Decatur, Delaware, Harrison, Huntington, Jack- 
son, Madison, Marion, Morgan, Parke, Putnam, Ripley, 8 
Steuben, Shelby, Wells (Deam). 
Economic uses. Wood heavy, hard, tough, strong, close-grained, 
brown, takes a high polish. It was used by the pioneers for wedges, 
mallets, handles for tools and for fuel. No place was found in 
Indiana where it is now bought for commercial purposes. The 
bark of the root is used in medicine and the fruit is freely eaten 
by some species of birds. 
Horticultural value. It is adapted to a moist rich soil; is not 
easily transplanted; crown depressed hemispheric. In flower it is 
the most showy of our native trees and for this reason it is much 
desired for ornamental planting. Several horticultural varieties 
have been developed, but they are not as hardy as the type. It 
is used in the planting of borders and because it isshade enduring 
is well adapted for planting between large trees. 
EBENACEZ. Tue Exsony Famiy. 
DIOSPYROS. 
(From the Greek, dios, Jupiter, and pyros, fruit: meaning heavenly fruit). 
Diospyros virginiana Linneus. Prrstmmmon. Plate 121. Bark 
dark reddish-brown to black, deeply and irregularly fissured; buds 
acute with lustrous purplish scales; leaves alternate, entire, oval, 
short pointed at apex, narrowed, rounded or cordate at the base, 
hairy when young, smooth at maturity, at least above, 8-16 cm. 
(3-6 inches) long and 5-8 em. (2-3 inches) wide; flowers appear 
in May or June when the leaves are half grown, greenish yellow, 
the staminate on one tree and the pistillate on another; fruit de- 
pressed globose to oval in shape, 2-3 cm. (24-114 inches) in diameter, 
reddish-brown or yellow, matures late in the fall, flesh very astring- 
ent when immature, sweet when ripe. The fruit varies greatly in 
