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6848. Sugar maple, or rock maple, faucet—A faucet made of the wood of 2. 
saccharum Marsh (See No. 3084). Presented by the Redlich Manu- 
facturing Company, of Chicago, Illinois. 
6849. Sugar maple, or rock maple, mudlar.—A mudlar, or toddy-stick, made of 
the preceding wood. Same donor. 
6850. Tochi-no-ki—The wood of 4esculus turbinata Blume (Hippocastanaceae— 
Horsechestnut Family). Native of Japan. 
6851. Dodonaea wood.—A trunk section of Dodonaea viscosa L. (Sapindaceae— 
Soapberry Family). Native of tropical and subtropical America. Col- 
lected by G. V. Nash in Haiti, in 1903. 
6852. Kosuba. Ceylon oak.—A block of the wood of Schleichera trijuga Willd. 
(Same family). Native of the Malay region. From British India. 
6853. Mamon.—A block of the wood of Melicocca bijuga L. (Same family). 
Native of tropical America and cultivated for its fruit. From Venezuela. 
THE BUCKTHORN FAMILY (Rhamnaceae) 
6854. Ber. Jujube.—A block of the wood of Zizyphus Jujuba Lam. Native of the 
East Indies. From British India. 
6855. Jujube tree.—A trunk section of Z. sativa Gaertn. Native of the Mediter- 
ranean region and cultivated. From Cosenza, Italy, through the Paris 
Exposition of 1900. 
6856. Christ’s thorn.—A trunk section of Paliurus aculeatus Lam. Native of 
southern Europe and adjacent Asia. From Grosseta, Italy, through the 
Paris Exposition of 1900. 
6857. Common buckthorn.—The thin stems of Rhamnus cathartica L. Native 
of temperate regions of the Old World and occasional in North America. 
From Vicenza, Italy, through the Paris Exposition of 1900. 
6858. Alaternus.—A trunk section of R. Alaternus L. Native of the Mediterranean 
region. From Grosseta, Italy, through the Paris Exposition of 1900. 
THE BASSWOOD FAMILY (Tiliaceae) 
6859. Mountain ash.—A block of the wood of Elaeocarpus grandis F. Mill. 
Native of Australia. From New South Wales. 
6860. Basswood barrel head.—A barrel head of the wood of Tilia americana L. 
Native of eastern and central North America. Presented by C. Heidt & 
Son, of Jersey City, New Jersey. 
6861. Basswood broom handle—A broom handle made of the preceding wood. 
Presented by G. Josephi. 
6862. Shina-no-ki.—A block of the wood of T. japonica (Miq.) Simonkai. From 
Japan. 
6863-6865. Russian basswood spoons.—Three sets of spoons made of the wood of a 
Russian basswood, or Tilia. From the Paris Exposition of 1900. 
6866. Three Russian pipes made of the same wood. Same source. 
6867. Dhaman.—A block of the wood of Grewia tiliaefolia Vahl. Native of tropical 
Asia and Africa. 
6868. Semul. Silk-cotton tree.-—A block of the wood of Bombax malabaricum DC. 
Native of the East Indies. From British India. 
