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future generations, like the huge red and white oaks 

 mingled with them. Occasionally you meet a big but- 

 ternut and walnut, but they appear not to be so much at 

 home here in the mountains as in the middle section of 

 the state. The hickories also are comparatively rare 

 trees in these deep mountain forests, finding more con- 

 genial soil farther westward. I saw only a few pignuts 

 and shagbarks. 



In so rapid a survey of the forest flora of these two 

 interesting sections of Tennessee I have been able to 

 speak of only the more important commercial trees. 

 There are many others of smaller size which make up a 

 large part of the forest cover, but which enter but little 

 into the commercial value of the wood products of the 

 state. The genera Cratsegus (hawthorn), Prunus (cherry) Py- 

 rus (crab-apple), Cornus (dogwood), Viburnum (haw), Aralia 

 (angelica-tree), Alnus (alder), Magnolia, Nyssa (gum), Asimina 

 (papaw), Ilex (holly), Ptelea (quinine-tree), Ailanthus, JEscu- 

 lus (buckeye), Ehus (sumach), Gymnodadus (coffee-tree), Cla- 

 drastis (yellow-wood), Hamamelis (wich hazel), Liquidambar 

 (sweet gum) Vaccinium (huckleberry), Kalmia (laurel), Rho- 

 dodendron, Bumelia (buckthorn), Diospyros (persimmon), Ca- 

 talpa, Sassafras, Platanus, (sycamore), Ostrya (ironwood), Car- 

 pinus (hornbeam), Salix (willow), Populus (aspen), Thuja 

 (cedar), are all represented in Middle and East Tennessee by 

 a large number of species, swelling the total number of trees 

 found in the middle and eastern sections of the state to 

 one hundred and thirty-five species. 



