WOODY PLANTS OF MANHATTAN 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST. 



1 ASIMINA, Adans. Fain. 1763. 



A. triloba, (L.) Dunal, Mon. Anon. 1817. Anona triloba, L. Spec. 

 1753. Papaw. 



A small tree with white pith, brown twigs, glabrous, or pubescent at 

 apex, two-ranked, rather broadly U-shaped leaf-scars and five bundle 

 scars. The dark brown, silky buds are naked, the compressed terminal 

 one being about 1 cm. long with conduplicate leaves, while the lateral 

 leaf-buds are appressed and only about 4 mm. long, and the flower-buds 

 globose and diverging. Usually occurs in groves in rich lowland soil. 



2 MENISPERMUM, Tourn. Act. Acad. Paris, 1705; L. Spec. 1753. 



M. Canadense, L. Spec. 1753. Moonseed. 



A greenish brown, glabrous, twining vine with white pith, circular, 

 concave leaf-scars, and about five bundle-scars. The uppermost of the 

 two to four low, rounded, villous, superposed buds is largest and placed 

 above the leaf -scar, the others being hidden. The bud scales are not 

 easily distinguished. Twines opposite to the hands of a watch. Common. 



3 TILIA, Tourn. Inst. 1700; L. Spec. 1753. 



T. American A, L. Spec. 1753. Basswood. 



A medium sized tree with smooth gray bark, white pith, drab, red or 

 light brown, glabrous twigs, two-ranked, semi-oval, oblique leaf-scars 

 with three to several bundle-scars, unequal stipule-scars, and no terminal 

 buds. The ovoid lateral buds have two or rarely three scales which are 

 glabrous or sometimes slightly pubescent at apex. Along moist bluffs. 

 Not common. 



4 ZANTHOXYLUM, L. Gen. 1737; Spec. 1753. 



Z. Americanum, Mill. Diet. 1768. Prickly Ash. 



A shrub, four to eight feet high, with white pith, pubescent, dark 

 brown or dark gray twigs, armed with prickles, or rarely unarmed. The 

 short, stout, flattened prickles are in the position of stipules or occasion- 

 ally scattered. The five-ranked leaf-scars are triangular heart-shaped, 

 containing three separate or more or less coalescing bundle-scars. The 

 buds are low and densely reddish, felty-pubescent, with obscure scales. 

 Not common. 



