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itants have no information when the trees were planted but place 
the date not later than a hundred years ago. One of the short trunk 
trees of this grove measures 126.5 inches in circumference breast 
high. This information would lead one to suspect that both of the 
trees of Jefferson County were planted. 
There is reliable historical evidence of this species occurring in the 
“flats” along Silver Creek north of Jeffersonville, and along the Ohio 
River above Bethlehem. 
Castanea dentata (Marshall) Borkhausen. Curstnur. The late 
A. C. Benedict, formerly of the Indiana Geological Survey, told me 
that in 1878 he saw a colony of chestnut in Fayette County on the 
farm of Dr. B. Ball about three miles west of Connersville, north of» 
the C. H. & D. Ry. and on the east side of Williams Creek. 
It reaches its western Indiana limit on the ridges east of Tell City 
in Perry County and on the hills west of White River in the western 
part of Martin County. The range of this species is very nearly 
co-extensive with that of Quercus Prinus (chestnut oak). 
Quercus ellipsoidalis Hill. In a letter to me, the late E. J. Hill 
writes: ‘This species is found in the first two section ranges of the 
west side of Porter County, and south of the Little Calumet River 
near Willow Creek Station on the B. & O. Ry. In these stations, as 
well as at Liverpool, it is in the sand region.” 
Quercus faleata Michaux. I have collected this species exten- 
sively for the past three years. Duplicates were sent to authorities 
on the oaks and they divide our form into two species on the color of 
the pubescence of the under side of the leaves. I confess I am unable 
to make use of this character, and for the present I shall treat all 
the forms in our area as one species. I have taken specimens as far 
east as Jefferson and Clark Counties where it occurs in low flat woods, 
usually associated with sweet gum, red maple, beech and pin oak. 
In Crawford County it was found also in a low flat woods. In Harri- 
son County it was found on a black and white oak ridge. The most 
northern limit is about eight miles southwest of Salem in Washington 
County, where it is found on high ground associated with post oak. 
It was collected also in a black and white oak woods twelve miles 
east of Washington in Daviess County. It is frequent in the flat 
woods about Grandview in Spencer County. 
Quercus lyrata Walter. Overcup Oak. Diligent search to extend 
the range of this species has failed. However, in Shawnee Park just 
below Louisville, Ky., are trees of this species and that of cow or 
basket oak, both of which are five feet in diameter. It is reasonable 
to suppose that Quercus lyrata occurred also on the opposite side of 
