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LIST OF WOODS OF AMERICA, AXD OF CHIXA.

WOODS OF AME RICA— continued.

7.

Fraxinus acuminata —

-

White ash.

8.

Fraxinus pubescens -

-

Red ash.

9.

Fraxinus sambucifolia

—

Black ash.

10.

Juglans cinerea - —

—

Butter-nut.

11.

Juniperus virginiana —

-

Red cedar.

12.

Ostrya virginica - —Pi mis balsamea — —

-

Iron-wood.

13.

—

Silver or balsam fir.

14.

Pinus canadensis — —

-

Hemlock.

15.

Pinus nigra — — —

-

Double spruce.

lfi.

Pinus resinosa - —

—

Norway pine.

17.

Pinus Strobus - -

—

White pine.

18.

Platanus occidentals —

-

Button wood, or syca-more.

19.

Robinia pseudacacia —

-

Locust wood.

20.

Thuja occidentals —

-

White cedar, or arborvitae.

21.

Tilia americana - —

_

Bass-wood, or lime-tree.

22.

Ulmus americana — —

_

White elm.

23.

Ulmus fulva — — —

_

Red or slippery elm.

A few good specimens of the chief woods of Man*- jland are also exhibited by the Maryland Committee(371, p. 1459), consisting of ash, beech, cedar, cherry,hickory, holly, locust, maple, mulberry, oak, pine, poplar,and walnut; these were deemed worthy of Honourable 'Mention. (Seep. 71.) j

Specimens of Palmetto cedar, live oak, and a few other jwoods, are exhibited by E. B. Bell, of Charleston , South ■Carolina (176, p. 1448*); these also were deemed worthyof Honourable Mention. It is hardly necessary to advert ito the importance of the wood of the live oak, Quercus jvirens, its value as a ship timber being universally known jand recognised. i

1. Acer eriocarpum - — —

White maple.

2. Acer sacchnrinum — — —

Sugar maple.

3. Carya tomentosa — — —

Common hickory.

4. Diospyros, sp. — — —

Persimon.

5. Fagus ferruginea - — —

Red beech.

6. Gleditschia triacanthos —

Sweet locust.

7. Horse-flesh.

8. Ilex opaca.

9. Juglaus nigra— — - —

Black walnut.

10. Juniperus Sabina — — —

Cedar.

11. Juniperus virginiana - —

Red cedar.

12. Pinus Strobus - - —

White pine.

13. Quercus alba - - - -

White oak.

14. Quercus Prinos acuminata

Yellow oak.

15. Quercus Prinos inonticola —

Rock chestnut oak.

16. Quercus virens — — —

Live oak.

A sample of sweet gum-wood

is contributed by J. B.

de Saussure, of Charleston (176a. p. 1448).

The only specimens of wood exhibited in the AustrianCollection are a series of pine planks, Abies taxifolia , asprepared for the uses of musical-instrument makers,chiefly for sounding-boards, shown by D. Bienert andSons, of Maderhaiisen (143, p. 1015.) The wood of thistree is remarkably homogeneous, and when fairly grown,is peculiarly free from knots, or irregularities of anykind ; it possesses in an eminent degree those qualitieswhich are essential for sounding-boards. A section of atree more than 3 feet in diameter is shown, in whichupwards of 470 concentric rings, or circles, can becounted ; from this it is presumed that the tree musthave been nearly five centuries old. These specimenswere deemed worthy of Honourable Mention.

WOODS OF CHINA .

A numerous collection of the woods of China is exhibited by the Rev. Dr. Parker (12, p. 1422). It is much tobe regretted that these specimens are so small as scarcely to show the characters of the woods ; many of the speci-mens have no labels, and of those which have, a considerable number are evidently incorrectly named ; the followingis a list of the labels:—

2.

Chan mull -

-

3.

Chang muh

-

4.

Chau muh —

—

5.

Chung tu -

-

6.

Ebony.

7.

Hwang lungmuh

8.

„ muh -

—

9.

IIwa Nien -

_

10.

Isz King muh

_

11.

Kan muh —

_

12.

Kau muh.

13.

Kuin tien kuh

—

14.

Kill now muh.

15.

Kung muh -

-

16.

Kwang Iang

—

17.

Lew muh —

—

18.

Lung yen muh

-

19.

Lan muh —

—

20.

Ma me muh

_

21.

Mango-tree wood.

22.

Mei muh -

—

23.

Muh mien -

_

24.

Nan-chi-muh

25.

Oil-wood.

26.

Pah-muh -

—

27.

Plum-wood -

-

28.

Pride of India

_

29.

Red-wood.

30.

Rose-wood —

31.

Sandal-wood.

32.

Sang muh —

33.

Satin-wood.

34.

Shan cha -

_

35.

„ che.

36.

„ muh -

—

37.

Sha tea muh

-

38.

Shui sha muh

_

39.

Siang iz muh

—

40.

Sung muh -

-

41.

Tan hiang muh

—

42.

Tau kwa san

-

I

Pine-wood.

Camphor-wood.

Yellow Dryandra.Yellow-wood.Averrhoa Carambola .Thorn-wood.

Tallow tree (?)Dryandra, sp. —Willow.

Dimocarpus jungyen.Canarium Pimela

Apricot-wood.Borabax Ceiba

-j Cedar (?)

— j Melia Azaderachta.

An inferior kind of pine.

Wood of the Coolie orange.

A fine wood for cabinet-work.

- -: Used for rhills of sedans.

Wood of the Chinese olive.A resinous pine.

Wood of the cotton-wood tree.

A fine wood from Cochin China .

Used for cutting blocks for books,(rather coarse.)

From Siam .

Mulberry.Wild tea

Pride of India.

Maple.

Fir.

Sandal-wood.

Peach flower. Pride of India -

A lofty tree.

A kind of willow.Used for coffins.

Called u China mahogany,” at Canton.