68 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 



" There are some other varieties of these trees in the nurseries 

 near London, which, not having been examined, we shall omit 

 at present.'' Celtis occidentalis. 



50. Jtiglandete. Juglans regia, four varieties of; nigra. 

 Carya, sp. (" Virginian walnut with long furrow'd fruit"), sp. 

 ("the hickery, or white Virginian walnut"), sp. (" the small 

 white Virginian walnut, or hickery "). 



51. Salicinece. Salix alba, pentandra, sp. (" the long-leav'd 

 sweet [scented leaf] willow"), babylonica, fragilis, ?«mygdalina 

 or ?triandra, vitellina, ? caprea ; ? c, round-leaved; c, round- 

 leaved-variegated. Populus canescens, alba ; a., variegated- 

 leaved ; tremula, nigra. 



52. Betulinese. i?etula alba, ^'lnus glutinosa and ? oblongata. 



53. CupidifercF. Quercus Plex, four varieties of; coccifera, 

 Pobur; R., leaf white -variegated ; alba, "evergreen oak with 

 broad leaves like the common oak," " the scarlet oak," " the 

 Virginian chestnut-leav'd oak," " the Virginian willow-leav'd 

 oak," " the chinquapin oak," " the Spanish cut-leav'd oak ; " 

 Suber, " the broad-leav'd cork tree ; " S. 9 " the narrow-leav'd 

 corktree." Carpinus Z?etulus ; B.> striped-leaved ; O'strya vul- 

 garis and virginica ; Castanea vesca ; v., leaf elegantly variegated ; 

 pumila; Pagus sylvatica; s., yellow-variegated-leaved ; Corylus 

 ^vellana, and five varieties of it. 



54. Vlatdnccc. Platanus orientalis, occidentalis, ? <zcerifolia ; 

 Liquidambar styraciflua. 



55. Mi/ricea?. Myrlca Gdle, cerifera, carol inensis. 



56. Coniferce. Cedrus Libani, />arix europae^a : e., with the 

 rudiments of the cone white ; Pin us sylvestris, Pinaster, sp. 

 (" Pinus; Americana, foliis praelongis, subinde terms, conis 

 plurimis confertim nascentibus "), Pinea, *S'trobus, paliistris ; 

 ^bies excelsa, Picea, sp. or var. (" Abies; minor, pectinatis 

 foliis, Virginiana, conis parvis subrotundis. Pluk. Aim. 2. Phyt. 

 tab. 121. f. 1."); sp. or var. (" Abies; Picese foliis, brevibus ; 

 conis minimis. Band."); nigra; balsamifera, sp. or var, (" Abies; 

 taxi folio; fructu longissimo, deorsum inflexo. Long-con'd 

 Cornish firr"); Schubert/a disticha, Cupressus sempervirens; 

 ? s., horizontalis ; Thuja occidentalis, occidentalis with its leaves 

 elegantly variegated; Tax us baccata ; b., leaf variegated; b., 

 " the broad shining-leav'd yew;" Juniperus communis, suecica, 

 virginiana,? virginiana humilis ; bermudiana, Sabina; S., va- 

 riegated-leaved ; ? &, " the berry-bearing or upright savin." 



The introducers of foreign trees and shrubs in the early part 

 ^the eighteenth century are much indebted to Mark Catesby, 

 an nthusiastic naturalist, who travelled in North America from 

 1712 to 1726, when he returned to England, made himself 

 niastc . r ?f the art of etching, and published his splendid work, 

 containing t j le natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the 



