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Myrica carolinensis Mill. At Coskaty twelve to fourteen feet 
high, the stoutest trunk thirteen inches in circumference; a some- 
what lower shrub near Abraham’s Point was fourteen inches in 
girth of trunk. 
Hicoria alba (L.) Britton. A wide-spreading tree in a Shaw- 
kemo thicket, in 1909, was about twelve feet in height and thirty- 
one inches around the trunk; the lower branches descended to the 
ground and in their widest reach overspread a space paced at 
forty feet. 
Hicoria glabra (Mill.) Britton. The stump of a tree in Shaw- 
kemo, recently felled in 1901, measured thirty-seven inches in 
circumference. 
Hicoria microcarpa (Nutt.) Britton. Not far from the tree 
at Wauwinet previously reported is a group of three trees dis- 
covered June 10, 1911, the largest of which, about fifteen feet in 
height, had a maximum trunk circumference of twenty-six inches 
and a spread of branches close to the ground of not less than thirty- 
five feet. 
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Carpinus caroliniana Walt. ‘‘‘Rare and shrublike, 1901, 
Lorin L. Dame,” F. G. Floyd. 
Betula populifolia Marsh. The largest trees seen grew among 
pines near the Wauwinet road and, in 1911, were estimated to be 
eighteen feet in height. 
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. Undoubtedly the largest of our forest 
trees growing on Nantucket today are beeches. The tallest are 
in Beechwood and must be fully thirty-five feet in height. The 
stoutest trunks seen there were, one fifty inches, another forty-four 
inches in girth near the base. A much stouter tree in Squam, 
difficult of access through its encompassment of dense thickets, 
although not over twenty feet in height, measured seventy-three 
inches in circumference one foot above the base. 
Quercus coccinea Muench. Native trees occur at Coskaty, the 
largest twenty-five to thirty feet in height, by estimate, the stoutest 
trunk forty-one inches around one foot above the base. 
Quercus velutina Lam. The stoutest black oak seen on Nan- 
