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measured 2 feet in diameter across top of stump, and 30 feet to 

 the first limb. The top was measured to 82 feet from the base, 

 but the smaller branches had all been destroyed. The trunk 

 was unusually short, considering the size of the tree, and had 

 been made into fence-posts. 



Page 70. Ulmus alata. Very abundant in bottoms of streams 

 in southern portion of Richland county, Illinois, but no large 

 trees noticed. It grew mostly in company with the Mississippi 

 Hackberry and the usual assemblage of bottom-land trees, the 

 Catalpa speciosa having once been abundant, but now quite ex- 

 terminated in some places and not common anywhere. 



Page 77. Carya alba. A small specimen measuring only 1 

 foot 10 inches in diameter at 3 feet from the ground was 96 

 feet long and GO feet to the first limb. 



Page 77. Carya microcorpa. " Heavy, damp soil ; scarce. 

 Has very little loose bark, one of our smallest hickories." 

 (Schneck.) A specimen growing in Gibson county, Indiana, 

 was 134 feet high, the trunk 70 feet clear and 9 feet 10 inches in 

 circumference at 3 feet from the ground. Another was 14 feet in 

 girth and considerably over 100 .feet high. The latter grew on 

 the bank of Greathouse creek, in Wabash county, Illinois, near 

 the town of Mount Carmel. 



Page 78. Carya porcina. A specimen growing on my fath- 

 er's farm, near Wheatland, measured 7J feet circumference at 3 

 feet from the ground, and was about 115 feet high. Another 

 growing two or three hundred yards from the specimen of C. 

 microcarpa, the measurements of which are given under the 

 head of that species, in Gibson county, was 10J feet in girth, the 

 top spreading 99 feet, and the total height not far from 140 feet. 



Page 78. Quercus alba. A remarkably fine white oak grow- 

 ing in the edge of the bottoms on the " Steen " tract, near Wheat- 

 land, Indiana, was not less than 130 feet high, while, by actual 

 measurement, the top expanded 121 feet, the respective extremi- 

 ties elevated not less than 100 feet; the trunk measured 15 feet 

 in circumference, at 3 feet from the ground, and was not less than 

 40 feet " in the clear." 



A white oak tree, standing alongside the Grayville road, 

 about five miles from Mount Carmel, measures 17J feet in cir- 

 cumference, but the base was somewhat swollen. 



Page 80. Quercus coccinea. A small tree, recently cut near 

 the edge of Monteur's pond, two miles west of Wheatland, Indi- 

 ana, was 120 feet long, 30 feet to first small limb, and 2 feet 9 

 inches in diameter across top of stump, at 3 feet from the ground. 



