188 Journal of the Mitchell Society [March 



Mountain pine for Pinus pungens; Black pine for P. rigida; Eoscmary pine 

 for P. echinata; Small shagbark hickory for Hicoria carolinae septentrionalis; 

 Band hickory for H. pallida; Spanish oak for Quercus cocoinea; Spotted oak 

 for Q. shumardii Buck. (See Bull. Charleston Museum 14: 2, 9, 1918) ; Southern 

 red oak for Q. rubra L. (Q. falcata Mx.) ; Mountain lin for Tilia heteropJii/Ua 

 of Authors. 



Appalachian Forest Formation 

 Associations Societies or Forest Types 



Spruce Spruce, qualities 2, 3, 4, 5, sub 5. 



Spruce with southern balsam. 



Hemlock Hemlock and spruce. 



Hemlock — birch, qualities 1, 2, 3. 

 Beech — birch — sugar 



maple Beech — birch — sugar maple, quality 3. 



Beech pure, qualities 4, 5. 



Yellow buckeye — sugar maple— yellow birch, quali- 

 ties 2, 3. 

 Mountain lin — black birch — yellow buckeye — white 



ash, quality 2. 

 Black cherry- — sugar maple — birch — mountain lin, 

 quality 2. 



Chestnut Qualities 2, 3, 4, 5. 



Yellow poplar With red oak — chestnut — hemlock, qualities 1, 2. 



With white oak — sugar maple, quality 1. 

 With white oak — black oak — white hickory, quali- 

 ties 3, 4. 

 With black gum — red maple — white oak, quality 3. 



Red oak Qualities 4, 5, sub 5. 



Chestnut oak Qualities 3, 4. 5. 



White oak * White oak, qualities 2, 3. 



Mixed oaks (southern red oak and sand hickory). 



Spanish oak Quality 3. 



Scrub oak < Scrub oak barrens, quality sub 5. 



Pin oak With red maple — black gum — alder, quality, 3. 



Pine types White pine, qualities super 1, 1, 2. 



White pine, white oak, and chestnut. 

 Black pine and Spanish oak. 

 Eosemary pine and black oak. 

 Eosemary pine and post oak. 

 Eosemary pine and blackjack oak. 

 Spruce pine. 

 Mountain pine. 



