. The silva of North America [microform] : a description of the tree which grow naturally in North America exclusive of Mexico. Trees; Trees; Dicotyledons; Arbres; Arbres; Dicotylédones. 38 SILFA OF NORTH AMERICA. CUPUUFEKit:. the level of the sea. Here it i» ahundtiiit, growing with PiiiUH ednlia, Pumdotrnga taxifolia, Ahien voncolor Cercocarims ledifoUux, Qiierciis Gumbelu, Cownnia Mexkann, Fraxiiinn anomala, Fraxlnua cuKoidtda, and Amilnnvhicr idnij'olia, and here, remote from the other species of the genus, it was found hy Mr. Frank 11. Knowlton' on September 10, 188{>.'^ The wood of
. The silva of North America [microform] : a description of the tree which grow naturally in North America exclusive of Mexico. Trees; Trees; Dicotyledons; Arbres; Arbres; Dicotylédones. 38 SILFA OF NORTH AMERICA. CUPUUFEKit:. the level of the sea. Here it i» ahundtiiit, growing with PiiiUH ednlia, Pumdotrnga taxifolia, Ahien voncolor Cercocarims ledifoUux, Qiierciis Gumbelu, Cownnia Mexkann, Fraxiiinn anomala, Fraxlnua cuKoidtda, and Amilnnvhicr idnij'olia, and here, remote from the other species of the genus, it was found hy Mr. Frank 11. Knowlton' on September 10, 188{>.'^ The wood of Onirya Knowltoni is hard, close-grained, compact, and light reddish brown, with thin ; â M 'It IF *" ' Frauk Hall Knowlton was born in Brandon, Rutlnnd Comity, Vermont, September '.', 18(!0. Ho wiw educated in tlio Bchools of his native plnee and at Middlebury College, Vermont, where he was graduated in 1884, and was then iippointoil an aid in tlie United Sti'es N, tional Mnseuni at Waaliington, a position in whicli he re- ij;»' >ed for three years. He was then made assistant curator of b' in ihe National Mnseniii, and in 188U he wiui appointed ,⢠. ««nt palieontologiat of the t'nitoil States (Jeologieal Survey, I) ^ : ^ion which he still m'cupies, and passed several months in CI dec .iig in the southwest. Since 1887 Mr. Knowlton has tilled the eh., .. ''otany in the Columbian University in Washington. He is tbt a-ithor of many important papers on palfDobotauy pub- lished in the Pri>cee(lini/» of Ihe fJnileil Slalea National Muieum and in the HiUUtitut of thf United Staten (reotttifiral Survey. ' Oslri/a Kwiirlliini was subso(piently 'lollected in fruit by Pro- fessor .1. W. Tourney in iluly, 18U2. The trees were visited by Professor Touniey and myself in September, 1804, when no traces of fruit could bti found upon them. For tlowering specimens col- lected in May, 18US, I am ind btod to Mr. L. H. Tolfroe of Tol- free, Arizona.
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