SAPINDACE,E.
..Esculus &bra. Ohio Buckeye. Tennessee and Wed, ern States. This tree attains, in favorable aituatione, twenty to thirty feet height, and is much in use aa an ornamental tree. It is not found wild eaet of the Alle gheny mountains; its favorable locality being the banks of the Western rivers, in Ohio, Illinois and Kentm ky. The wood ia light. suft and uaele,.a. The nuts are said to be poiaon nue to cattle eating them.
E Jlava. Sweet Buckeye. South ern Staten Thia tree prevaila more to the southward than the Ohio Buckeye. It ie abundant in the mountainous districts of North and South Carolina and Georgia. In favorable situations, it frequently attaina a height of fifty to aixty feet, and the trunk a diameter of two tu three feet. The flowers are of a light agreeable yellow and quite ornamental. The wood ia eoft and perishable.
paria. Red Buckeye. Southern States. Thia species has nearly the game range as the preceding, hut ia ueually only a ahrub of eight or ten feet height ; some times, however, becoming a small tree.
CaliforniaBuckeye. California. Thia ia the only buckeye of the Pacific coast. It forms a low, apreading, buehy tree from fifteen to twenty ft et high.
Ungnadia speciosa. Spaniah Buckeye. Tease and Westward. This is a large shrub or cAna II tree, a native of Texas and New Mexico. The chestnut-like fruits have an agreeable, sweet taste, but are strongly emetic. The foli age resembles that of the hickory, (Calla).
Sapintius marginatas. Soap Berry. Southern States. Thia tree varies from twenty to forty feet in height. It occurs along the coaat in Georgia and Florida, also in Arkansas and Texae. The berriea are smaller than those of the next species, but, like that, the black hard nuts of the berries are sometimes strung for beads aud croseea.
Saponaria. White Wood. South Florida. This speciea was found by Dr. Chapman in south Florida. In the West Indies, the berries and the roots are need ae a substitute for soap. The berriea are used to intoxicate fish.
Hypetate paniculata. Madeira Wood. South Florida. A small tree found in South Florida. The wood ia very like mahogany, and is highly valued.
Aeer sacchasinum. Sugar Maple: Hard Mnple. East ern United States. The well knovrn Sugar Maple, from the sap of which in the Northern Statea and in Canada large quantitiee of auger and eyrup are made annually.
It is one of the nobleet of American trees, both for the value of its wood and the beauty of its form and foliage. It ia much employed as an ornamental tree.
A. sacchannum, var. nipeuni. Black Sugar Maple. Eastern TJoited States. Thia variety differs little from the common form except in a darker wood.
A. dascycarpurn. Silver-leaf Maple. Eastern United States. One of the moat beautiful of meplea; much used as a shade-tree on account of its rapid growth and beauti ful foliage.
A. rubrurn. Red Maple. Eaetern United Statce. More compact in form and lesa rapid in growth than the preced ing, but, like it, a favorite for atreet planting and orna ment.
A. Penrisylvanticurn. Striped-bark Maple. Northeast ern United States. A email tree, the young bark with longitudinal stripea of green and black. Rare and little known outside of the Northeastern Statea.
A. macrophyilum. Oregon Maple California and Ore gon. This occurs in the mountamons districts of Califor nia and Oregon. In Oregon, it attains a large size, and the wood abounds in that peculiarity of grain which ie called Bird's-eye and Curled Maple. For cabinet pur posea it ia thought tu ba equal to mahogany.
cireinnaturn. Vine Maple. Oregon and Washington Territory. This apecies haa a low and frequently reclin ing or prostrate trunk, which senda forth branches, at first 'upright, then bending down to the ground, and form ing almost impenetrable thickets.
A. grandidentatum. Great-toothed Maple. California and Oregon. A amall tree or ehriab of the Rocky moun tains.
Hegunelo aceroides. Box Elder. Eastern United States. Thia is a fine ornamental tree. of rapid growth, not com monly growing more than twenty to thirty feet high. It is rare east of the Alkghtinies, but found along all the rivers of the West, reaching into Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, and even northward to Minnesota and the British possessions. The eap containe a large amount of sugar. The wood ia fine and close-grained, and haa been used in cabinet work.
Californira California Box Elder. California. Tina species is confined to the Pacific coaet. It does not seem to differ greatly. from the preceding species.
Staphylea trifoliata. Bladder Tree Fa•tern United Shaft. A large ahrub or small tree ten to fifteen feet high, with trifoliate leavea, peculiar three-lobed bladdery pods.