103 
“ ,. Green Spruce .... Hemlock tree, a kind of Spruce. 
“Sassafras, or ague tree.” 
meee,  UImus i 25.” 
4:41. “Acer, leaves angular palmate, flowers almost apeta- 
lous, sessile, fruit peduncled corymbose. 
“Acer virginianum, leaves large, silvery beneath, shiny 
green above. 
“Acer, red flowered, leaves large, green above, shining sil- 
very beneath. 
“Plantano, exudes an odoriferous gum. (Sweet gum.)”’ 
4:58. ‘‘Tilia—leaves large, mucronate.” 
4:60. “Liriodendron. Tulipifera arbor virginiana.” 
4:115. “Alnus communis Clayt. Betula ... twigs pliant, 
lenticels. Quercus ..., leaves lanceolate, entire, (Willow oak). 
Quercus alba (White oak). Quercus—cuneate trilobate, decid- 
uous (Water oak). Quercus—with chestnut leaves, (Chestnut 
oak). Quercus—(Red oak). Juglans nigra. Juglans alba. Fagus 
with leaves lanceolate to acute ovate, serrate... . Castanea 
pumila (chinquapin bush). Fagus vulgaris Clayt. Corylus with a 
round and hard kernel, Clayt. Castanea with a sweet fruit Clayt. 
Carpinus .... Platanus occidentalis.” 
4: 119. “Pinus, with cones arising in clusters, leaves long, 
three from each sheath. Clayt. (Cluster pine). Pinus... with 
smaller cones less clustered together Clayt. (Spruce pine). Cu- 
. pressus virginiana.” 
121. “Nyssa with a many flowered peduncle. Nyssa with 
a one flowered peduncle. Morus with small leaves. Fraxinus 
With entire leaflets.” 
:5. “It is an excellent country for Dying-Stuff and curious 
simples, as also for several other curious woods used in wains- 
Coating and cabinet, such as cedar, cypress, sassafras, blackwal- 
nut etc.” 
6': 11. “Cupressus americana. The cypress, (except the 
tulip tree) is the tallest and largest in these parts of the world. 
‘ear the ground some of ‘em measure 30 foot in circumference, 
"sing pyramidally six foot, where it is about two thirds less; 
rom which to the limbs, is usually 60 or 70 foot, it grows 1n pro- 
Portion of other trees.” 
6': 18. “The Chestnut Oak. This oak grows only in low and 
very good land, and is the tallest and largest of the oaks in these 
Parts of the world... .” 
