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drier situations and is generally associated with white oak, red oak 

 and sweet gum. In our area it is usually a tall medium sized tree, 

 although it sometimes attains a circumference of 5 m. (16 feet). 



The published records of the distribution are as follows: C'lark 

 (Smith); Dearborn (CoUins); Delaware (Phinney); Delaware, Jay, 

 Randolph and Wayne (Phinney) ; Fayette (Hessler) ; Franklin 

 (Meyncke) ; Gibson (Schneck) ; Hamilton(Doane) ; Jefferson (Coul- 

 ter) and (Young) ; Knox (Ridgway) and (Thomas) ; Kosciusko 

 (Clark) and (Youse); Lake (Babcock) and (Blatchley); Marshall 

 (Scovell) ; Monroe (Blatchley) ; Noble (Van Gorder) ; Parke (Hobbs) ; 

 Porter (Blatchley); Posey (Schneck); Putnam (MacDougal); Steu- 

 ben (Bradner); Vigo (Blatchley). 



Additional records are: Monroe (Mottier); Putnam (Grimes); 

 Tippecanoe (Coulter); Allen, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Decatur, 

 Gibson, Harrison, Johnson, Laporte, Marshall, Montgomery, Por- 

 ter, Posey, Steuben (Deam). 



Economic uses. Wood heavy, soft, rough, sap wood yellowish, 

 heart wood light brown, difficult to split. Used principally for 

 building material, heading, boxes and by the pioneers for ox-yokes, 



2. CORNUS. The Cornels. 



Cornus alternifolia Linnseus. Dogwood. Swamp Dogwood. Plate 

 119. Bark gray to dark brown, sometimes the bark of small trees 

 is a glossy yellow green, smooth, warty, or with shallow fissures; 

 twigs at the end of the season green, tinged with brown; buds 

 brown, small and acute; leaves clustered at the ends of the branches, 

 oval or ovate, taper-pointed, narrow or rounded at the base, 6-10 

 cm. (23^2-4 inches) long, margin mostly entire with a few shallow 

 indentations, bright green above, paler beneath, both surfaces 

 hairy when expanding, at maturity the upper side is usually smooth 

 and the lower whitish with appressed hairs; flowers appear in May, 

 in cymes about 5 cm. (2 inches) broad on shoots of the season, 

 cream color, about 3 mm. (3/8 inch) long; fruit dark blue-black, 

 sub-globose, about 8 mm. (1/3 inch) in diameter; stone obovoid, 

 pointed at the base, longitudinally many grooved. 



Distribution. Eastern Quebec west to northern Minnesota and 

 south to northern Alabama and Georgia. Throughout Indiana in 

 wet woods and along the borders of streams and lakes. Its dis- 

 tribution has not been determined, although it is believed to be 

 rather rare; favorable conditions for its growth appear to be local. 

 It is found along, the Tippecanoe River in Fulton County and asso- 



