CAROLINA BUCKTHORN. 
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southern and south-western forests, on the borders of 
Palmetto creek, Laurens county, in Georgia, the late 
Mr. Croom observed trees of this species 30 to 40 feet 
high. In the forests of Arkansa, they attain the height 
of ordinary peach or apple trees, and congregated toge- 
ther produce shady groves of considerable extent. The 
quality or uses of its wood remain a desideratum. The 
stems are, however, slender for their height, being not 
more than 4 to 6 inches in diameter. 
The leaves are 3 to 6 inches long, and 1 to 2 inches 
wide, oval-oblong and widening towards the summit, the 
extremity more or less briefly acuminate, the border 
slenderly serrulate, and sometimes irregularly waved, 
the lateral pennate veins are 10 to 12 and rather dis- 
tant; the very young leaves before expansion are some- 
what ferruginously villous. Umbels on stout pedicels, 
from 10 to 15 flowered. The calyx pubescent but not 
ferruginous, the segments lanceolate; petals 2-lobed at 
the extremity. The fruit black, as large as a small pea, 
is mostly 3-seeded. Seeds black, plano-convex, without 
a groove. 
This species begins to appear in North Carolina, and 
extends through Georgia to Florida. West of the Mis- 
sissippi, it is abundant on the banks of the Arkansa, 
and Mr. Say collected it within the range of the Rocky 
Mountains. 
In Bartram’s Botanic Garden, at Kingsessing, where 
this species is perfectly hardy, it forms an elegant tree, 
and has attained the height of near upon 25 feet in 20 
years. Colonel Carr, the worthy proprietor of this inte- 
resting garden, tells me that for a considerable time the 
berries remain red and are very ornamental; at length 
towards winter they turn black, and remain so for a 
long time, until some famished flock of Robins falls upon 
and strips them nearly at once. 
