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Species in Key
Hand-Lens Key for the Use of Identification of Important Comercial Woods Used in the Unites States
W. R. Adams, revised by R.A. Whitmore, University of Vermont

Example from Hough

Larger view. Largest view.

Species have been linked to examples found inThe American Woods: Exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text , Volumes I-XIV, by Romeyn B. Hough, Loweville, New York. These volumes include radial, tangential, and cross-sections of 350 North American woods from the fourteen-volume rare book The American Woods: exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text, published 1888-1910 by the author, Romeyn Beck Hough. The images can be accessed by volume number or by the scientific or common name of each tree. Available online from the Special Collections Department of the NCSU Libraries.

Where species' names have changed, the examples found in Hough ate in brackets. These need to be verified to make certain they are the same species, now renamed.