8.  spedosa,  Bentham  iu  Jour.  Boston  Soc.  Nat.  Hist,  vi,  176. — Gray  in  Mem.  Am.  Acad,  new  ser.  iv»,  38;  Smithsonian  Contrib.
iii,  54;  Hall's  PI.  Texas,  7.— Walpers,  Ann.  ii,  439.— Torrey,  Bot.  Mex.  Boundary  Survey,  58.— Young,  Bot.  Texas,
242.— Vasey,  Cat.  Forest  Treos,  12.
58  FOREST  TREES  OF  NORTH  AMERICA.
FEIGOLITO.
Matagorda  bay,  Texas,  west  to  the  mountains  of  'Sew  Mexico  {Havard}.
A  small  tree,  sometimes  9  meters  in  height,  with  a  trunk  0.15  to  0.20  meter  in  diameter,  or  often,  especially-
west  of  the  San  Antonio  river,  a  tall  shrub,  rarely  exceeding  2  meters  in  height,  forming  dense  thickets;  borders
of  streams,  generally  in  a  low,  rather  moist  soil.
Wood  very  heavy,  hard,  close-grained,  compact,  susceptible  of  a  high  polish;  medullary  rays  numerous,  thin;
color,  orange  streaked  with  red,  the  heavier  sap-wood  brown  or  yellow;  specific  gravity,  0.9842;  ash,  1.59;
furnishing  valuable  fuel.
The  seeds  contain  an  exceedingly  poisonous  alkaloid,  Sophoria  (H.  V.  Wood  in  Philadelphia  Med.  Times,  August
4,  1877. — Bothrock  in  Coulter's  Bat.  Gazette,  ii,  133. — Nat.  Dispensatory,  2  ed.  1333).
84. — Sophora  affinis,  Torrey  &  Gray,

Fl.  N.  America,  i,  390.— Leavenwortli  in  Am.  Jour.  Sci.  1  ser.  ix,  130.— Gray  in  Jour.  Boston  Soo.  Nat.  Hist,  vi,  178 ;  Hall's  PI.
Texas,  7. — Soheele  in  Eoemer,  Texas,  428. — Vasey,  Cat.  Forest  Trees,  12.
StyphnoloMum  affine,  Walpers,  Eep.  i,  807.
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Arkansas,  valley  of  the  Arkansas  river  {Letterman)  to  the  valley  of  the  San  Antonio  river,  Texas.
A  small  tree,  5  to  7  meters  in  height,  with  a  trunk  sometimes  0.15  to  0.25  meter  in  diameter;  borders  of  streams
and  prairies.
