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Common and botanical Names of Trees Alenttoned in tl)ts 



Article. 



So much confusion exists in the use of the comnnon names of our trees that it 

 may be well to append here a list of the species mentioned in the foregoing pages, 

 with the botanical name of each for the purpose of further identification. 



Cucumber Tree, Mountain Magnolia, 



Tulip Tree, Yellow Poplar, Whitewood, 



Basswood, American Linden, Lime, 



Ailanthus, Tree of Heaven, 



Horse Chestnut, 



Red Flowering Horse Chestnut, 



White, Silver, Water or Soft Maple, 



Red, Scarlet, Swamp or Soft Maple, 



Sycamore Maple, 



Hard, Rock or Sugar Maple, 



Norway Maple, 



Schwedler's Maple, Purple Norway, 



Ash-leaved Maple, Box Elder, 



Staghorn Sumach, Velvet Sumach, 



Poison Sumach, Poison Dogwood, 



Yellow, Black, or Common Locust, 



Kentucky Coffee Tree, 



Honey Locust, Three Thorned Acacia^ 



Black or Wild Cherry, 



Mountain Ash, 



Sweet Gum, Bilsted, Liquidambar, 



Flowering Dogwood, 



Pepperidge, Sour Gum, Tupelo, 



White Ash, 



Black or Swamp Ash, 



Western or Hardy Catalpa, 



Sassafras, 



English Elm, 



American or White Elm, 



Hackberry, Sugarberry, Nettle Tree, 



Magnolia acuminata Lr 

 Liriodendron tulipifera Lc 

 Tilia americana L. 

 Ailanthus glandulosa Desf.''^ 

 Aesculus hippocastaniini L.--'^ 

 Aesculus rubicunda. 

 Acer ekfsyearpzini-&a.r'h.. ^ — " 

 Acer rubrum L.-^^ 

 Acer pseudoplatanus L. 

 Acer sacchariiin Marsh. — 

 Acer platanoides L. 

 Acer platanoides schwedleri. 

 Acer negundo Lr"""^ 

 Rhus typhina Lr^"^ 

 Rhus vernix L. 

 Robinia pseudacacia \i7 

 Gymnocladus dioicus C. Koch. 

 Qleditsia triacanthos L--^' 

 Prunus serotina Ehrh. 

 Pyrus americana de C. 

 Liquidambar styraciflua L. 

 Cornus florida L. 

 Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. 

 Fraxinus americana L. 

 Fraxinus nigra Marsh. 

 Catalpa speciosa Warder. 

 Sassafras sassafras Karst . 

 Ulmus campestris L. 

 Ulmus americana L,-^ 

 Celtis occidentalis L. 



