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black oak. There is also a fine timbered tract adjacent to Lane's 

 prairie, and we there find laurel oak, shellbark and pignut 

 hickories, mulberry, black walnut, red and white elm, plum, 

 sassafras, ash, and grape vines. 



" But the best timbered lands we find along the larger 

 streams, including the Gasconade with Big and Little Maries, 

 and Dry Fork of Bourbeuse, where we find bur, laurel, red, 

 rock chestnut, swamp white oak, with shellbark and pignut 

 hickory, hackberry, black and white walnut, American and red 

 elm, sycamore, linden, red bud, pawpaw, and grape. 



" There is not so much nor such fine timber on the smaller 

 streams (Little Tavern, Spring creek, Sugar creek, Cave Spring 

 and Dry creek), but there is still some fine timber on them. 

 We find pignut hickory, chinquapin oak, rock chestnut oak, 

 with sometimes laurel and white oak; also hazle, American elm, 

 red elm, alder, ironwood, hornbeam, red bud, pawpaw, and the 

 muscadine grape frequently abounds ; found the muscadine on 

 Dry creek and the smaller streams flowing into the Gasconade. 

 On Cave Spring creek and Dry creek found gum trees." 



In short, the timber of this part of the State is good and suf- 

 ficiently abundant to supply all the demands of a dense and 

 industrious population. The various kinds of trees and shrubs 

 observed, are shown by the following catalogue. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 

 ALDER. 



Common Alder (Alms serulata). On streams in Newton, 

 Lawrence and Taney counties ; also on the tributaries of the 

 Gasconade river, in Maries county. 



Black Alder or Winter-Berry. In wet land and wooded 



bottoms. 



APPLE. 



Crab Apple (Malus coronaria). Bordering rich prairies. 



ASH. 



White Ash (Fraxinus Americana). Abundant near Lane's 

 prairie, and on Bourbeuse creek, in Maries county. 



Blue Ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata). On good soil. 



Prickly Ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum). In bottoms and 

 moist places. 



