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good deal of white ash, but it is widely scattered and does not 
seem so plenty as it really is. 
4. The liriodendron, which is so valuable a timber tree, has 
largely disappeared from the neighborhood of streams capable 
of floating it out. Even on the smallest streams, local mills. 
are using it up rapidly. I was informed that the forests were 
once full of it, where now scarcely a tree is to be seen for 
miles. Great apprehension is to be felt of a want of this tim- 
ber even in the near future. 
5. White elm is found along all the tributaries of the Trade- 
water, and is tolerably plenty. I had no means of determin- 
ing its probable proportion in the future forests. 
6. Post oak is plenty, covering all the hills through this part 
of Kentucky, and extending far down toward the foot-hills. 
There is no need to fear a dearth of it for years to come, 
though it does not seem to hold its own in the coming forests. 
7. No chestnut is to be found in this part of Kentucky. 
As it exists in great plenty in other parts of the State, on 
exactly similar geological formations, I could see no reason 
for its absence. 
CompLeTte List or TimsBrrs FOUND. 
ORDER CUPULIFER&—MASTWORTS. 
1. Genus Quercus. 
White oak, Quercus alba (L.) 
Red oak, Q. rubra (L.) 
Pin oak, Q. palustris (Mx.) 
Spanish oak, Q. falcata (L.) 
Black oak, Q. tinctoria (Bart.) 
Post oak, Q. obtusiloba (Mx.) 
Black jack, Q. nigra (L.) 
Chestnut oak, Q. castanea (Muhl.) 
Scarlet oak, Q. coccinea (Wang.) 
Bartram oak, Q. heterophylla (Mx.) 
Swamp white oak, Q. bicolor ( Willd.) 
Laurel oak, Q. imbricaria (Mx.) 
Swamp laurel oak, Q. laurifolia (Mx.) 
