The Alder. 



Latin name is Tilia Americana; therefore, when the 

 reader looks at the Index, for the word Lime, he will, in 

 one of the instances, find " See Bass fVood." This Index 

 is, therefore, a thing" of great importance, and must be 

 attended to by the reader, who will otherwise experience 

 great mortification. The Index is made out according to 

 the commonest English and American names. The Botanical 

 name is added, but 1 have not thought it necessary to make 

 a Botanical Index also. Particular trees go by different 

 names, in different parts of the country. I have, in every 

 case, therefore, taken all the common names that I have 

 ever heard of ; and if the reader do not find the name of 

 any tree that he wants to read about, in the part of the 

 book where he would expect to find it; for instance, if he 

 do not find the Aspen Tree in that part of the book where 

 the Alphabetical order would induce him to expect to find 

 it ; let him then turn to the Index, there he will find, 

 "Aspen. See Poplar," Having given this explanation,! now 

 proceed to take the trees one after the other. According to 

 the Alphabet, Abele would be the first and Acacia the 

 second ; but, as the first of these will come in its proper 

 place, under the word Poplar ; and as the second will 

 come in its place, under the word Locust, I begin my 

 observations and instructions with the Alder. 



In Latin, Alni^s : in French, Aune. 



93. The botanical characters are:— It hath male and female flowers, at 

 separate distances on the same tree ; the male flowers are collected in a cy- 

 lindrical katkin, which is scaly, loose, and imbricated on every side, each 

 scale havitjg; three flowers, wliich have two minute scales on the side. The 

 flower is composed of three equal florets, fixed to the empalement by a single 

 scale ; each floret is of one leaf, divided into four oval segments which spread 

 open ; these have four small stamina, crowned by double summits. The 



