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  1.  The Virginian fringe-tree, Chionanthus virginica.

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1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., Arbor Zeylanica,… the Snow-drop Tree…. This Tree is very hardy in respect to Cold, standing abroad in the open Air.

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1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., Snow-drop-tree, a very beautiful American tree, which bears the cold of our climate in the open air. Ibid., App., Snow-drop-tree, the English name of a genus of trees, called by botanists chionanthus.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 317.

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 270/2. Chionanthus, the Snowdrop tree of North America [etc.].

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  2.  A North American styraceous tree or shrub, Halesia tetraptera.

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1823.  Crabb, Technol. Dict., s.v. Halesia, Four-winged Halesia, or Snow-drop Tree.

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1831.  Audubon, Ornith. Biog., I. 123. The Snow-Drop Tree, Silver-Bell Tree, or Wild Olive.

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1857.  Henfrey, Elem. Bot., § 509. Halesia tetraptera, another North American plant, is called the Snowdrop-tree, on account of its numerous white bell-shaped blossoms.

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1875.  Encycl. Brit., II. 320. The snow-drop tree … is one of the hardiest of North American trees.

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  3.  A West Indian tree (see quots.).

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1864.  Grisebach, Flora Brit. W. Ind., 787/2. Snowdrop tree: Hænianthus incrassatus.

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1889.  Cent. Dict., s.v. Linociera, L. incrassata of Jamaica, a large tree with panicles of white flowers, is called snowdrop-tree.

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  4.  African snowdrop tree, = SNOWDROP 2 (quot. 1891).

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1895.  in Funk’s Stand. Dict.

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