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PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



Ehretla clliptica. DC. — Leaves smooth, oval or oblong, some- 

 times serrate. Young branclilets and flowers hairy or downy. 

 Flowers w^hite and fragrant. Fruit about the size of peas, 

 round and yellow when ripe, containing one seed, furrowed on 

 the back. A small tree twenty to thirty feet high in South 

 Florida, and westward in the swamps of Southern Texas and 

 Mexico. For E. radula, Poir., see Bourreria Havanensis. 



EUGEmA, Micheli. — Allsjnce, 



A large genus of evergreen, tropical or sub-tropical shrubs or 

 small trees belonging to the Myrtle Family. The greater part 

 are indigenous to the Caribbean Islands. Flowers small, and 

 the fruit a globose berry, crowned with a persistent calyx. 

 Seeds one or two, roundish and large. Four of the species are 

 found on our southernmost border. 



Eugenia buxifolia, Willd.— Box-leaved Allspice. -Leaves smooth, 

 rather thick, obovate-oblong, about an inch and a half long. 

 Flowers minute, with reddish petals. Berry black, about 

 three-eighths of an inch in diameter, containing one to three 

 seeds. Wood hard and close-grained. A tree about twenty 

 feet high, growing in sterile places, near the sea, at Key West, 

 and on several of the islands in the West Indies. 



E. dieliotomaj DC. — Small-leaved Eugenia. — Leaves oblong- 

 obovate, roughened with appressed hairs, becoming smooth. 

 Flowers long, peduncles reddish, berry about the size of a pea, 

 one-seeded. Branches covered with a smooth, grayish bark. 

 Wood hard. A small tree in Southern Florida and the West 

 Indies. Cultivated in conservatories at the North on account 

 of its fragrance. 



E. procera, Poir. — Tall Eugenia. — Leaves smooth, ovate-taper- 

 ing, but with a rather blunt point. Flowers solitary, or only 

 two to four together, same color as the last. Berry small, 

 round, not larger than a grain of black pepper ; one-seeded. 

 Wood white, close-grained. The bark on the twigs and smaller 

 brahches, silvery white. A small tree, twenty to thirty feet 

 high at Key West and in the W^est Indies. 



FAGUS, Tour. — Beech, 



Mostly large, handsome timber trees, those of the northern 

 hemisphere deciduous, but there are two evergreen species in 

 South America, and one in New Zealand. Sterile flowers in 

 small heads, on drooping peduncles, the fertile ones in pairs on 



