BOTANY. 



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Pawpaw, 



Button wood, or 

 Sycamore — -two species. 



Yellow pine, 



Poplar, 

 Cotton tree, 

 Balsam poplar, 

 Heartleaved, 

 White poplar, 

 American aspen. 



PAWPAW. 



Annona triloba. 



BUTTON WOOD. 



Platanus occidentalis4 



PINES. 



Pinus flavia. 



POPLARS. 



Populus. 



Populus argentea. 

 Populus Balsamifera. 

 Populus Candicaus. 

 Populus canescens. 

 Populus tremuloides. 



TREES NOT VERY COMMON. 



Crab apple, 

 Mountain laurel, . 

 Black birch. 

 Yellow do. 



Black alder, or Alnus, 

 Buckeye, two species. 

 Sweet buckeye. 



Malus coronaria. 

 Kalmia latifolia, rare. 

 Betula nigra, do. 

 . « flava, 

 Alnus ohiensis. 



Pavia lutea. 



do. 



Pavia ohiensis. 



Besides the above named trees, we have many more. 

 Among the trees enumeratad above, the over-cup-acorn oak, 

 the white and black oaks, the sycamore, the beech, the black 

 walnut, the white wood, the sugar maple, the shell barked 

 hickory, the chestnut, the yellow pine, the common European 

 walnut and several others are the largest trees we have grow- 

 ing in this state. Their height is often one hundred feet» 

 and their diameter, from three to four, or five feet. We have 

 two or more species of mulberry and so congenial are our soil 

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