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Persea gratissima Gaetner. Avocado. 



Range. — Central America. Escaped from cultivation in peninsular Florida 

 and Keys, and apparently naturalized. 



Note ox nomenclature. — Designated by some authors as Persea persea 

 (Linnaeus) Ccckerell, which is based on Laurus persea Linnaeus, the oldest name 

 for this tree. 



NAMES IN USE 



• Avocado. Alligator Pear. 



Avocado Pear. 



OCOTEA Aublet 



Ocotea catesbyana (Michaux) Sargent. lancewood. 



Range. — Southern Florida (shores and islands on the east coast south of 

 Cape Canaveral and on the west coast south of Cape Romano) ; Bahamas. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Xectandra icilldenoviana 

 Meisner. 



NAMES IN USE 



Lancewood (Fla.). Avispillo (Porto Rico). 



Sweet wood (Jamaica). Canela (Porto Rico). 



Cigua (.Cuba). 



UMBELLULARIA Xuttall 



*Umbellularia californica (Hooker and Arnott) Xuttall. 



Oregon Myrtle. 



Range. — From Oregon (Coos River) through California (coast ranges and 

 western slopes of Sierra Nevada to southern slopes of San Bernardino Mountains). 



NAMES IN USE 



California Laurel (Calif.). Laurel (Calif.). 



Mountain Laurel (Calif.). Oreodaphne (Calif.). 



California Bay-tree and Bay-tree California Sassafras, 



i Calif.). Pepperwood (Calif.). 



Mvrtle-tree (Oreg.). Yellow Mvrtle, Black Mvrtle, and 



Cajeput (Oreg., Calif.). -White Mvrtle (Oreg.). 



California Olive (Oreg., Calif.). Bav (Calif.). 



Myrtle (Oreg.. Bay Laurel (Calif.). 



Spice-tree (Oreg., Calif.). Oregon Myrtle (trade). 



SASSAFRAS Nee and Ebermaier 



Sassafras variifolium (Salisbury) Kuntze. Sassafras. 



Range. — From southern Maine and eastern Massachusetts through southern 

 Vermont, southern Ontario, and central Michigan (on east up to Traverse 

 County), southeastern Iowa to eastern Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma; south 

 to central Florida (Orange County) and eastern Texas (Brazos River). 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly and still designated as Sassafras officinale 

 Xce and Ebermaier. Sassafras variifolium (Salisbury) Kuntze, based on the 

 oldest binomial applied to this species, is maintained here in order to avoid using 

 the duplicate binomial Sassafras sassafras (Linnaeus) Karsten, the oldest name 

 for this tree. 



