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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 



" Tliere are some other varieties of these trees in the nurseries 

 near London, which, not having been examined, vi^e shall omit 

 at present." Celtis occidentalis. 



50. SuglcmdecE. Juglans regia, four varieties of; nigra. 

 Carya, sp. (" Virginian walnut with long furrow'd fruit"), sp. 

 ("the hickery, or white Virginian walnut"), sp. (" the small 

 white Virginian walnut, or hickery"). 



51. Salicinece. 5aHx alba, pentandra, sp. (" the long-leav'd 

 sweet [scented leaf] willow"), babylonica, fragilis, ?«mygdalina 

 or ? triandra, vitellina, ?caprea; ? c, round- leaved ; c, round- 

 leaved-variegated. Populus canescens, alba; a., variegated- 

 leaved ; tremula, nigra. 



52. Behdmea^. ^etula alba, y^'lnus glutin5sa and ? oblongata. 



53. CitpuUfer(S. Quercus i'^lex, four varieties of; coccifera, 

 7?6bur; JR., leaf white-variegated; alba, "evergreen oak with 

 broad leaves like the common oak," " the scarlet oak," " the 

 Virginian chestnut-leav'd oak," " the Virginian willow-leav'd 

 oak," "the chinquapin oak," "the Spanish cut-leav'd oak;" 

 ^uber, " the broad-leav'd cork tree ; " aS., " the narrow-leav'd 

 cork tree." Carpinus i?etulus ; 25., striped-leaved ; O'strya vul- 

 garis and virginica ; Castanea vesca; v., leaf elegantly variegated ; 

 piimila ; jPagus sylvatica ; s., yellow-variegated-leaved ; Corylus 

 -^vellana, and five varieties of it. 



54. VlatdnecE. Platanus orientalls, occidentalis, ? acerifolia ; 

 Liquidanibar styraciflua. 



55. 'Myr'ice(^. iWyrica Gale, cerifera, carolinensis. 



56. ConifercE, Cedrus Libani, Xarix europae^a : e., with the 

 rudiments of the cone white ; Pinus sylvestris, Pinaster, sp. 

 (" Pinus; Americana, foliis prselongis, subinde ternis, conis 

 plurimis confertim nascentibus "), Pinea, *S'trobns, palustris ; 

 ^'bies excelsa, Picea, sp. or var. (" Abies; minor, pectinatis 

 foliis, Virginiana, conis parvis subrotundis. Pink. Aim. 2. Phyt. 

 tab. ] 21. f. 1.") ; sp. or var. (" Abies ; Piceffi foliis, brevibus ; 

 conis minimis. Rand"); nigra; balsamifera, sp. or var, (" Abies; 

 taxi folio ; fructu longissimo, deorsum inflexo. Long-con'd 

 Cornish firr"); Schubertm disticha, Cupressus sempervirens ; 

 ? s., horizontalis ; Thuja occidentalis, occidentalis with its leaves 

 elegantly variegated; Paxus baccata ; b., leaf variegated; b., 

 " the broad shining-leav'd yew;" Juniperus commimis, suecica, 

 virginiana,? virginiana humilis ; bermudiana, iSabina; S., va- 

 riegated-leaved ; ? S.i " the berry-bearing or upright savin." 



The introducers of foreign trees and shrubs in the early part 

 of the eighteenth century are much indebted to Mark Catesby, 

 an enthusiastic naturalist, who travelled in North America from 

 1712 to 1726, when he returned to England, made himself 

 master of the art of etching, and published his splendid work, 

 containing the natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the 



