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erally more than 130 feet, as may be seen from the following measure- 

 ments : 



Remarks.—;/', a very fine tree, formerly standing on the commons 

 within the corporation limits of Mount Carmel, but destroyed by the 

 tornado of June 4, 1877; height measured by its shadow, the result 

 verified by subsequent tape-line measurement; g, i, three majestic trees 

 standing near together on the bank of a bayou opposite Rochester, the 

 gradually tapering trunks estimated to be 70 to 80 feet clear, the total 

 height of the tree is nearly 150 feet. In the immediate vicinity many 

 others nearly as large (5 to 6 feet through). 



88. (268.) Populus tremuloides. Aspen; "Quaking Asp." 



A very rare tree in upland woods of Wabash County, but co nmon in 

 both uplands and bottoms near Monteur's Pond, in Knox County, Indi- 

 ana, where it forms a small slender tree, 50 to 70 feet high and (5 inches 

 to a little over a foot in diameter. Only two trees were measured, one, 

 blown over by the wind, but still growing, being 71 feet long and 1 foot 

 2 inches in diameter; the other, cut for measurement, being 51i feet 

 long, though only 14 inches in circumference at the base, and measuring 

 24 feet to the first limb. 



89. (277.) Juniperus virginiana. Red Cedar. 



Not native, so far as known, in any i)art of Wabash County, nor ad- 

 joining counties in Indiana, the soil being everywhere far too rich for it. 

 It is abundant, however, on the hills of Gallatin County, near the mouth 

 of the Wabash. The miniature J. communis is found sparingly in Wa- 

 bash and adjoining counties, but becomes only a small bush in stature. 



90. (283.) ChamcecyiKiris spliwroidea. White Cedar. " Wet places near 



the mouth of the Wabash River." (Schneck.) Not seen by me; 

 no measurements. 



91. (287.) Taxodium distichum. Bald Cypress; "Cypress." 



I have never heard of any cypress growing anywhere on the Illinois side 

 of the Wabash, but in the lower part of Knox County, Indiana, or that 

 portion embraced between the Wabash and White Rivers, and known as 

 " The Neck," it is very abundant, the area embraced by the cypress 

 swamps of that district, and largely timbered with cypress, being esti- 

 mated at 20,000 acres (see Cox's Geological Survey of Indiana, 1873, p. 

 338). The cypress swamps of this region comprise two quite distinct 



