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it found on soils based on disintegration of tiie second sandstone, and 

 in south central and southeast Missouri the pine is often a guide to 

 the underlying geological formation. The pine of Missouri is the 

 p. mit'is. 



The following is nearly a complete list of trees and shrubs of 

 north Missouri : 



(I give common names chiefly.) 



Crab apple, ash, prickly ash, blackberry, (3 species) Rubus trivi- 

 alis, a. vlllosus, R' canadensis, bladdernut, box elder, wahoo, button 

 bush, common wild cherry, cottonwood, Amorpha funticosa, A. canes- 

 coiSt (lead plant), bitter sweet, coral berry, Cornis serixea, C. panicu- 

 Lata, elder, red elm, American elm, Smilax or green brier, (several 

 species.) hackberry, (2 species,) common hazel, cassia, (2 species.) 

 Crataigus, (several species) pignut hickory, shellbark and thick shell- 

 bark hickory, yellow honeysuckle, iron wood, honey locust, white 

 maple, mulberry, linden, burr oak, rock chestnut oak, laurel oak, pin 

 oak, black oak, red oak, white oak, pawpaw, plum rose, (2 species,) 

 li. lucida and R. setigera, raspberry, red l)ud, sumach, (several 

 species.) poison oak, sarsaparilla, service berry, (rare) Virginia creeper, 

 black walnut, willow, (about 4 species,) red root, (2 species.) buckeye, 

 coff"ee bean, the latter two not always common. The bitternut hickory, 

 rare. The pecan abounds in the Missouri and Mississippi bottoms, but 

 I have not observed it west of Platte countj', and on North Grand 

 River I observed it as high up as Utica. It abounds on the Marais des 

 Cygne and Marmaton in western Missouri. 



The muscadine grape, ( V. vulpina,) I have found in Montgomery, 

 Maries and southwardly. The black hickory, {Caya macrocarpa,) 

 abounds on some of the hills in the eastern and southern portions of 

 North Missouri, but disappears in going west. It occurs in the south- 

 east: Sugsir maple occurs in most of the counties in North Missouri,, 

 but is quite rare in some. It chiefly abounds near the streams flowing 

 into the Missouri and is found no further west than the Nodaway river. 

 In Adair county we find the sugar tree and white walnut near the 

 streams flowing into Chariton river, but they are rarely found upon the 

 bottoms of the Chariton. Cornus circinata I have only found on blufls 

 of Missouri and Mississippi rivers in eastern Missouri. 



The white ash is a common tree. 



Two species of rose are commoa throughout north and also found 

 in south Missouri, viz.: R. setigena and R. lucida. A smooth bark 

 rose I have found in AVarren county and in south Missouri. In St. 

 Charles we may find Vitis aestivalis, V. cordi folia, V. vulpina, V. 

 riparia- In western Missouri only V. riparia, V. cordifolia and rare- 

 ly V. aestivalis. V. indivisa is found nearly throughout the State» 



