190 Journal of the Mitchell Society [March 



High benches. 



Black cherry — sugar maple — mountaiu liu — black birch, quality 2. 



Bed oak pure, qualities 4 and 5. 



Beech pure, qualities 4 and 5. 

 High slopes, south aspects. 



Chestnut pure, qualities 4 and 5. 

 Slopes (middle altitudes), northern and western aspects. 



Chestnut pure, qualities 3 and 4. 



White oak pure, quality 3. 



Hemlock — birch, qualities 1 and 2. 



Black pine — chestnut oak — Spanish oak, quality 4. 

 Slopes (middle altitudes), southern aspects. 



Chestnut pure, qualities 3 and 4. 



Chestnut oak pure, qualities 3 and 4. 



White oak pure, quality 3. 

 Slopes (lower) northern aspects. 



Chestnut pure, qualities 2 and 3. 



White oak pure, qualities 2 and 3. 



Spanish oak pure, quality 3. 



Yellow poplar — white oak — black oak — white hickory, qualities 3 and 4. 

 Slopes (lower) southern aspects. 



Chestnut pure, qualities 2 and 3. 



Chestnut oak pure, quality 3. 



White oak pure, qualities 2 and 3. 

 Hollows, ravines, coves. 



Chestnut pure, quality 2. 



Mountain lin — buckeye — ash, quality 2. 



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



Yellow poplar — white oak — sugar maple, quality 1. 

 AUuvials (drained) and valleys. 



Yellow poplar — white oak — black gum — red maple, quality 3. 



Beech pure, quality 4. 



White pine, qualities super 1, 1 and 2. 



Hemlock, qualities 1 and 2. 

 Swamps. 



Eed maple — inn oak — alder — green ash — black gum. 

 Carolinian Area of Upper Austral Life Zone 



Crests and dry flats (under 2,500 feet, in North Carolina ; under 1,500 feet 

 in Augusta County, Virginia) . 



Rosemary pine and post oak, quality 3. 



Rosemary pine and blackjack oak, quality 4. 

 Slopes and flats. 



Rosemary pine — black oak — white hickory, quality 2. 



