"of the sort called_____"

With an effect of bathos, sort of:

To-day we still followed up Cherry Creek, or its dry sands; but towards noon, it came running to meet us; and there were the patronymic cherries,—or rather the bushes; and of the sort called choke-cherries.  --May 1853 Scenes Beyond the Western Border; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army

It was one of the first of the chill nights in autumn. There was a fire on the hearth, burning low. The air without was torpid and heavy; the wood, by an oversight, of the sort called soggy.  --I and my Chimney, March 1856