Botanical Gazette. 



Vol. VIII. DECEMBER, 1883. No. 12. 



Additions and Corrections to the List of Native Trees of the 



Lower Wabash. 1 



BY ROBERT RIDGWAY. 



Page 50. For No. 8, Prunus " Virginiana " read P. Americana. 



Page 53. To the list of 52 species add Fraxinus quadrangu- 

 lata and Carya microcarpa, discovered subsequently on the same 

 tract. During a second enumeration made in October, 1882, and 

 restricted to 22 acres of the same piece of woods, 44 species 

 were counted, notwithstanding the fact that 8 acres had been 

 wholly deprived of the underwood and most of the larger trees, 

 while the best timber had been culled from the whole of it. This 

 allows two distinct species of trees for each separate acre of the 

 entire tract. With the consent of the owner of the land, whose 

 intention was to clear the whole piece, selected specimens of all 

 the species were marked for preservation. 



Page 57. To the " List of trees attaining a height of 100 feet 

 or more," add, Quercus Michauxii (119 feet), Carya porcina (115 

 feet), and G. microcarpa (134 feet). 



Page 62. Acer rubrum. A felled specimen near Wheatland 

 measured 92 feet in length, 31 feet to first limb, and 3 feet in 

 diameter at 3^ feet from the ground ; a standing tree in the same 

 locality was 11| feet in circumference, at lj feet, but at 8 feet 

 from the ground divided into two upright forks. 



Page 67. Liquidambar Styracifiua. Three additional felled 

 trees of this species measured as follows : — u. Total length 96 

 feet, clear trunk 52, circumference 7; v. 108, 57J, 8; w. 121, 

 70, 9. The last was felled expressly for measurement. 



Page 68. The Tupelo Gum (Nyssa uniflora) was omitted. 

 It is abundant in the cypress swamps of Johnson, Pulaski, and 



1 Notes on the Native Trees of the Lower Wabash and White river valleys 

 in Illinois and Indiana. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, pp. 49-88. 



