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NAMES IN USE 



Sassafras (Vt., N. H., Mass., Conn., Sassafrac (Del.). 



R. I., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., Md., Gumbo file (La., Negro dialect). 



Va., W. Va., N. C, S. C, Ga., Fla., Wah-eh-nah-kas =" Smelling stick" 



Miss., La., Tex., Ark., Ky., Mo., (Onondaga Indians (N. Y.). 



111., Ind., Kans., Nebr., Mich., Ohio, White Sassafras (N. C.). 



Ontario). Red Sassafras (N. C.). 



Saxifrax (Fla.). Ague-tree (lit.). 



Saxifrax-tree (Tenn.). Common Sassafras (lit.). 



Sassafac (W. Va.). Cinnamon-wood. 



MISAjJJTECA Chamisso and Schlechtendal 



Misanteca triandra (Swartz) Mez. 



Range. — Southern Florida (Dade County, on a hammock at roadside between 

 Miami and Homestead; only two plants now known in Florida, where the species 

 was first detected in 1910; added to our tree flora in 1911) . 39 Occurs in Cuba 

 and in Jamaica. 



CITOAMOMUM Linnaeus 



Cinnamomum camphora Nee and Ebermarer. 



Range. — Native of China and Japan. Extensively planted for ornament in 

 the Gulf States from Florida to southeastern Texas and sparingly naturalized in 

 Florida (Fide J. K. Small). 



Family CAPPARIDACE^E 



CAPPARIS Linnams 



Capparis jamaicensis Jacquin. Caper-tree. 



Range. — Southern Florida (coast from Cape Canaveral to the southern Keys); 

 West Indies. 



NAME IN USE 



Caper-tree (Fla.) 



Capparis cynophallophora Linnaeus. 



Range. — Florida (Kitchen-middens of eastern coast; hammocks of Everglade 

 Keys and those of Florida Keys); South America. 



Family MORENGACE^ 

 MORINGA LaMarck 



Moringa pterygosperma Gartner. Horseradish-tree. 



Range. — Southern Florida (escaped from cultivation in Florida, where it was 

 introduced from the West Indies). Native of southern Asia. 



Note on nomenclature. — The oldest name for this tree is Moringa Moringa 

 (Linnseus) Small, which is based on Guilandina Moringa Linnaeus. 



NAME IN USE 



Horseradish-tree 

 » C, S. Sargent (Trees and Shrubs, II, Pt. Ill, 135, 1911); J. K. Small (Flor. So. E. U. S. ed. 2, 823, 1913) 



