/'. variabilis. Lamb. Fellow Pine. Spruce Fine. North part 

 of Suite. Timber valuable. 



P. palustris. (P. australis.) Long-leaved or Brown Pine. Tim- 

 ber valuable. 



E. strobus. White Pine. Weymouth Pine. Masts of ships and 

 various purport - 



Abies. 

 A. Canadensis. (Pinus. Linn.) Hemlock. Bark used in tan- 

 ning. 



A. nigra. Michx. (Pinus. Linn.) Black Spruce. Timber used 

 in architecture, young branches used in making spruce beer- 



A. balsamea. Willd. (Pinus. Linn.) Fir Balsam. Balsam Spruce. 

 North part of State. 



Cupressus. 

 C. distycha. Cypress. Wet soils. Wood fine grained and dura- 

 ble. 



Thuja. 

 T. occidentalis. Arbor Vitae. Border of streams, lakes, &c. 

 Wood light and durable. 



Juniperus. 

 J. Virginiana. (J. Sabina. Hook.) Red Cedar. Off. Found 

 on Red Cedar River. Properties similar to sabina, stimulant, em- 

 men agogue, diuretic and diaphoretic. Excresences on the branches, 

 called Cedar Apples, employed as anthelmintics. Wood used for 

 fences, tubs, pails and drawing pencils. 



Taxus. 

 T. Canadensis. Dwarf Yew. Ground Hemlock. Shady places. 

 Fruit red. May. 



Ord— ARACEjE. 

 An acrid, volatile principle pervades the order, which is in some in- 

 stances so concentrated as to become poisonous. The corms andrhi- 

 zomas abound also in starch, which in some cases, when the volatile 

 acridity is expelled in drying or cooking, is edible and nutritious. 



Arum. 

 A. tripkyllum. Dragon-Root. Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Indian Tur- 

 r.ip Off. Wet woodlands. May. June g. y. and p. Properties 

 id, irritant, secemant, stimulant, pectoral. When dried valuable 

 carminative. 

 A. dracontium. Green Dragon Banks of streams. .Line. July. 

 Properties similar bo lasl 



<'\LLA. 



C.pa Northern ('alia. Wet places. North part ol State. 



July. Rootacrid Bread mad< from it after th< acridity is destroyed. 



