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attacked by insects. Used for furniture, internal fittings, masts, 

 spars, staves, and shingles. Cardpa procera DO. ( = (7. guineensis 

 Sweet, G. guyanmsis Oliver), the " Touloucouna " or "Tallicoma" 

 of Senegambia, is a very similar wood, as also is G, grandiflora 

 Sprague, of Uganda. 



Crow's Ash. See Flindosa. 



Crow's-foot Elm. See Silver-tree. 



Cuamara. See Tonka-bean. 



Cucumber-tree {Magnolia acuminata L. : Order MagnoUdcece), 

 *' Mountain Magnolia." Eastern United States. Height up to 

 100 ft. ; diam. 4 ft. S.G. 409. W 29-23. E 671 kilos. Sapwood 

 broad, white ; heart yellowish-brown, soft, light, close-grained, 

 moderately compact and durable, taking a satiny polish. Closely 

 resembling and often confounded with Tulip-wood {Liriodendron 

 tulipifera), though generally distinguishable by its wider sapwood, 

 this wood is used for turnery, wainscot, packing-cases, and cheap 

 furniture. [See also Papaw.] 



Cudgerie. See Flindosa. 



Curupay {Piptadinia cebil Grisebach (?) : Order Leguminosce). 

 BoHvia. Height 65 ft. ; diam. 3 ft. S.G. 1*14. Reddish, very 

 heavy, hard, coarse-grained, durable when submerged, and there- 

 fore valuable for bridge-construction or ship-building. It is an 

 admirable wood for the spokes of heavy motor-waggons. Another 

 less valuable wood, yellowish-brown, with dark purple streaks, 

 comes to England under the same name. 



Cypre, Bols de (Gordia Oerascdnthus Jacq. : Order Borraginece). 

 Tropical America. " Prince-wood," " Spanish Elm," " Dominica 

 Eosewood," " Bois de Rhodes." Dark brown with dusky excentric 

 zones, open-grained, soft, durable. W 42 — 47*69. E 553. / 2*73. 

 fc 2*16. f$ '428. Used in cabinet-work. 



Cypress {Guprissus sempervirens L. : Order Gupressinece). Medi- 

 terranean region, Asia Minor, and Persia. Height up to 100 ft. ; 

 diam. sometimes 7 ft. S.G. 620 — 570. Reddish, fragrant, mode- 

 rately hard, very fine- and close-grained, and virtually indestructible. 

 Used by the ancient Egyptians for mummy-cases ; for the coffins 

 of the Popes ; in Assyria and in Crete for shipbuilding ; for the gates 

 of Constantinople destroyed by the Turks in 1453, eleven hundred 

 years after their construction ; and for the doors of S. Peter's, which 

 were quite sound when replaced, about the same time and after a 

 similar duration, by brass. Perhaps the Tirzah of Isaiah xliv. 14, 15. 

 Used, according to Evelyn, for harps and organ-pipes, and also for 

 vine-props ; but now seldom employed. 



Cypress, Bald, Black, Deciduous, Red, Swamp or White {Taxddium 

 distichum Richard: Order Taxodiice}^ Swamps of the Southern 



