SAPINDACEIE.
2g Imam glahra. Ohio Buckeye. Tennessee and West ern States. This tree attain•, in favorable situations, twenty to thirty feet height, and is much in use as an ornamental tree. It is not found wild east of the A l'e ghany mountaine; it.. favorable locality being the banks of tie Western livers, in Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky. The wood is light, soft and 'mete- e. The nuts are said to be poisontma to cattle eating them.
,E. flaw. Sweet Bud. eye. Southern States. This tree prevails more to the southward than the Ohio Buckeye. It is abundant in the mountainous distrlete of North and South Carolina and Georgia. In favorable situations, it frequently attains a height of fifty to sixty feet, and the trunk a diameter of two to three feet. The flowers are of a light agreeable yellow aud quite ornameutaL The wood is soft and perishable.
X. patio. Red Buckeye. Southern States. This species has nearly the same range as the preceding, but is usually only a shrub of eight or ten feet height; some times, however, becoming a small tree.
Calif°, mica. CaliforniaBuckeye. California. This . is the only buckeye of the Pacific coast. It forms a low, spreading, bushy tree from fifteen to twenty f, et high. Ung Hata° speciosa. Spanish Buckeye. Texas and Westward. This is a large shrub or small 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 Chet of the hickory, (Carya).
Saptnclus marginate& Soap Berry. Southern States. This tree varies from twenty to forty feet in height. It occurs along the coast in Georgia and Florida, also in Arkansas and Texas. The berries are smaller than those of the next species, but, like that, the black hard nuts of the berries are sometimes strung fur beads and crosses.
Saponaria. White.Wood South Florida. This species was found by Dr. Chapman in south Florida. In the West Indies. the berries and the roots are used as a substitute for soap. The berries are need to intoxicate fish.
Hypelale pa ,levIctfa Madeira Wood. South Florida. A small tree found in South Florida. The wood is very like mahogany, and is highly valued.
'leer attach°. intim. Sugar Maple: Hard Maple. East ern United States. The well known Sugar Maple, from the sap of which in the Northern States and in Canada huge quantities of sugar and syrup are made annually. It is one of the noblest of American trees, both for the value of its wood and the beauty of its farm and foliage. It is mush employed as an ornamental tree.
A. sarcharmane, var. niomm. Black Sugar Maple. Eastern United States. This variety differs little from the common form except in a darker wood.
A. dascycarp..m. Silver-leaf Maple. Eastern Flitted States. One of the most be oniful of maples; much used as a -hade-tree on account of its rapid growth and beauti ful foliage.
A. 'Tabriz's?, Red Maple. Eastern United States. More compact in form and less rapid in growth than the preced ing, but, like it, a favorite for stri et planting and orna ment.
A. Pennaylvanitam. Striped-bark Maple. Northeast
ern United States. A small tree, the young bark with longitudinal stripes at _green and black. Rare and little known outside of the Noitheastern States.
A. macrophyllam. Oregon Maple California and Ore gon. This occurs in the mountainous districts of Califor nia and Oregon. In Oregon, it attains a large size, and the wood abounds in that pectin .rity of graiu which is called Bird's-eye and Curled 'Maple. For cabinet pur poses it is thought to be equal to mahogany.
A. circinnatans. Vine Maple. Oregon and Washington Territory This species has a low and frequenry reclin ing or proetrate trunk, which sends forth branches, at first upright, then bending down to the ground, aud form• ing almost impenetrable thickets.
A. grandidentatam. Great-toothed M s p' e and Oregon. A small tree or shrub of the Rocky moun tains.
Neyando aceroldes. BoxElder. Eastern United States. This 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 Alb ghanies, hut found along all the rivers of the West, reaching into Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, and even northward to Minnesota end the British possessions. The sap contains a large amount of sugar. The wood is fine and close-grained, and has been used in cabinet work.
N. Catiforni• a California Box Elder. California. This species is confined to the Pacific coast. It does not seem to differ from the preceding specie..
Staphylea trtfoliafa. Bladder Tree Eastern United States. A large shrub or small tree ten to fifte-u feet high, with trifoliate leaves, peculiar three-lobed bladdery pods.
AblACARDIACE/E.
Elms tuphina. Staghorn Sumach. Eastern States. The Sum- ens are large shrubs or small trees mostly with piuuate leaves. The leaves and young twigs, are employed in tanning and are thought to be equal in strength to those of the Sicilian Sumach.
B. glabra. Smooth Sumach. tnited States. B. nitcrophylla. Small leaved Sumach. Texas and Southwest.
B. copalliva. Dwarf Somech. Eastern United States. R. Afefopium. Coral Sumach. South Florida. This grows in South Florida. where it atta ns a height of twenty to thirty feet. It is very poisonous. In the West Indies, it is called Mountain Mauchi nee' and Burnwood. B. venenctia. Poison Sumach. Eastern United States.
R. integ 'Voila. One-leaved Sumach. South Carolina. This species and the succeeding do not have pinnate leaves. They are found iu Southern California. The red berries of this sp. ties are used by the Indiana to make a cooling acid drink.
B. Laurin. Laurel Sumach. South California. A low spreading tree, much branched and ve y leafy, and ex haling to a considerable distance an aromatic odor. The flowers are somewhat showy, and the plant would be fine in cultivation.
Pistacia Mexicana. Mexican Pistacia-tree. Texas. Schinus moue. Pepper Tree. Southwestern United States. Cultivated as an ornamental tree in California and in Mexico. It is probably introduced. The berries have the taste of black pepper.