Field and Forest 



DEVOTED TO 



GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY. 



Vol. I.— DECEMBER, 1876.— No. 7. 



Our Native Trees. 



The Tulip Tree — Liriodendron tidipifera. 



The geographical distribution of the Tulip Poplar is quite extensive, 

 since it occurs in nearly every portion of the Eastern forest region, 

 with the exception of Northern New England and, perhaps, the Western 

 Gulf States. Along the Atlantic coast it extends from Florida to Massa- 

 chusetts, while in the interior it is found from Michigan southward to 

 Tennessee and Arkansas, general works containing no record of its 

 occurrence farther to the South in the Mississippi Valley. Gray 

 (Lessons and Manual, ed. 1871, p. 50) gives its range as from 

 " b. New England to Michigan, Illinois and southward;" Chapman 

 (Flora of the Southern States, 1865, p. 14) says that it is found in low 

 grounds, from Florida northward ; while Cooper, in his '' Catalogue 

 of the Native Trees of the United States " (Smithsonian Report, 1858, 

 p. 250) gives the north-eastern limit of its range as Russell, Massa- 

 chusetts, its southern limit, Florida, its north-western. Cape Girar- 

 deau, Missouri, and its south-western. Fort Smith, Arkansas, the 

 region of its greatest abundance being the State of Tennessee. 



From the above and our own observations it may be deduced that 

 its centre of distribution is the country drained by the Ohio, and its 

 tributaries, particularly that portion which is embraced between the 

 parallels of 35° and 40°, from the Alleghanies to the Missis- 



