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The published records of the distribution are as follows: Frank- 

 lin (Haymond) and (Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Hamilton (Wil- 

 son) ; Kosciusko (Chipman) and (Clark) ; Lake (Higley and Radden) ; 

 Marion (Wilson) ; Miami (Gorby) ; vicinity of New Albany (Clapp) ; 

 Noble (Van Gorder); Steuben (Bradner); Vigo (Blatchley)*. 



Additional records are: Monroe (Blatchley); Montgomery (Ev- 

 ans); Putnam (Grimes) and (MacDougal); Tippecanoe (Coulter); 

 Crawford, Fountain, Grant, Harrison, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, 

 Kosciusko, Morgan, Parke, Porter, Putnam, Steuben, Warren, 

 Washington and Wells (Deam). 



Economic uses. Wood light, brittle, close-grained, works easily, 

 durable, sap wood thin and white, heart wood dull red, fragrant. 

 Representative uses are posts, crossties, lead pencils, cigar boxes 

 and chests. In this State when the trees become large enough 

 they are generally used for fence posts. This species furnishes a 

 large number of the commercial fence posts of the State, although 

 they are shipped in, usually from Tennessee. 



Horticultural value. It has been used for a long time as an orna 

 mental tree and nurserymen now offer several horticultural vari- 

 eties. It is adapted to almost all kinds of soils, although its prefer- 

 ence is for a thin gravelly soil. It transplants with fair success, 

 grows slowly and is long lived. The tree grows rather compact and 

 since the leaves do not fall for several years it makes a desirable 

 tree to plant for a windbreak. A rust which affects the leaves of 

 apples and pears passes its winter stage on this tree and causes the 

 malformations on the twigs known as "cedar apples." Since the 

 tree is a harbor for this fungus, it should not be permitted to grow 

 near an orchard. 



SALICACE^. The Willow Family. 



Trees or shrubs with simple, alternate leaves; flowers in catkins 

 appearing before or with the leaves, the staminate and pistillate on 

 different trees; fruit a dehiscent capsule, which contains numerous 

 seeds with a tuft of long silky hairs at the apex. 



Buds with one outer scale, leaf blades more than twice 

 as long as wide, stamens 2-10, scales of the flower 

 entire or merely toothed 1 Salix. 



Buds with numerous scales, leaf blades less than twice 

 as long as wide, stamens more than 10, scales of 

 flower incised 2 Populus. 



'No doubt many of the references to Juniperus communis should be referred to this species. 



