Coreopsis. Tick-seed Sun Flower. Verticillata, L. Whorl-leaved tick-seed, or sunflower.

The leaves are sometimes employed by the Indians to make a red dye.

Cerasus. Cherry Tree. Virginiana, M. Virginia cherry tree.

Flowers white; berries red. The wood is employed for furniture, which has a fine appearance.

Cunila.

Cunila. Mariana, L. Mint-leaved cunila, or dittany.

Flowers red. A decoction of this plant is employed for colds and coughs.

Chionanthus. Fringe Tree. Virginica, L. Snow-drop, fringe, or paper-tree.

It grows to the height of ten or twelve feet. The whiteness, and hanging position of its flowers, render it a great ornament.

Cactus. Cactus. Opuntia, L.

pear, or common Indian fig.

Prickly

Flowers yellow. The berries, of a bright red, are

eaten by children.

Dactylis. Cock's-foot Grass. Glomerata, L. Orchard, or round-headed cock's-foot

grass.

This grass is supposed to be of European origin. It serves as an emetic for dogs and cats.

Daucus.

Carrot.

Sylvestris, L. Wild

carrot.

Diospyros. Persimon. Virginiana, L. Virginia persimon-tree, or medlar, or date plum.

Flowers pale yellow. Fruit of a bright yellow. A fine liquor is distilled from the ripe fruit, which is also employed to make beer. Mixed with flour, it gives an agreeable taste to bread. The juice of the unripe fruit is preferred to oak-bark for the purpose of tanning. In some places the inner bark of the persimon-tree is eaten with potatoes; and an infusion, or decoction, is employed as a gargle for a sore throat.

Evonymus. Spinäle Tree. Americanus, L. American spindle-tree, or burning-bush.

Euphorbia. Spurge. Corrollata, L. Coralstalked spurge.-Hypericifolia. St. John's wort leaved.

Echium. Viper's Bugloss.

Species injured, and not determined.

Erysimum. Hedge Mustard. Officinale, L. Domestic mustard.

Flowers yellow, small. The seeds have a diuretic quality.

Erigeron. Erigeron, or Flea-bane. Philadelphicum, L. Sweet, or spreading fleabane.

The rays of the petals are of a fine blue colour. This plant is employed as a remedy in calculous and nephritic disorders.

Fagus. Beach. Fagus Pumila. Chinquapin.

Fraxinus. Ash. Americana, or latifolia. Red, or American ash.

The wood of this tree, which grows to the height of thirty or forty feet, is employed for different purposes, and especially for carriage-wheels. inner bark are diuretic.

Gleditzia. Monosperma.

The seeds and

Water-locust.—

Triacanthos. Honey, or sweet locust.

The wood of both species is of an inferior quality.

Gnaphalium. Cudweed, or Life-everlasting. Dioicum, L. Common.

Geranium.

Geranium. Carolinianum, L. Carolinian geranium.

Flowers small, and white with red veins.

Hypericum. St. John's Wort. Perforatum, L. Common.

A very pernicious wood, which is said to be injurious to horses and cows.

leaved laurel, calico-bush, or spoon-tree of Jersey.

The flowers, of a pale red colour, have a fine appearance in May. The wood, of a yellow colour, is employed for various purposes. The leaves are poisonous to cows and horses, but not to goats and deer.

Juglans. Walnut, or Hickory. Nigra, L. Black.-Cathartica, M. White, or butter

nut.

Both species attain the height of forty or fifty feet. Their wood is valuable in the mechanical arts. - The fruit of the former has an agreeable taste. A decoction

of the bark of the latter is found to be an excellent cathartic'.

Juniperus. Cedar. Virginiana. Red cedar.

This tree, of a slow growth, grows to the height of twenty or thirty feet. The wood is very durable, and is employed for various purposes, particularly for shipbuilding.

Liquidambar. Sweet Gum. Styraciflua, L. Maple-leaved.

The wood is employed for different purposes, though very inferior in quality to the black walnut, cherrytree, etc.

Leonurus. Mother-wort. Cardiaca, L. Common mother-wort.

Lobelia. Lobelia. Kalmii, L. Kalm's.Inflata, L. Inflated.

Both species have small blue flowers. This plant is found to have great influence in syphilitic disorders.

Linum. Flax. Virginianum, L. Virginia flax.

Small yellow flowers.

* See Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de L'Amerique Septentrionale, par Michaux, vol. I. p. 171,