Flora of the Allegany State Park Region 65 



IVfYRICACEAE (Sweet Gale Family) 

 Myrica asplenifolia L. Comptonia pcrcgritia (L.) 

 Coulter. Sweet Fern 

 In sterile, rocky, sandy or gravelly soil. Locally 

 common. Banks on the road toward Elko, Elko 

 mountain, Huckleberry hill, Parker hill etc. 



JUGLANDACEAE (Walnut Family) 

 Juglans cinerea L. Butternut 



In fertile lowland soils. Infrequent. Elko, Cold 

 Spring, Tunungwant valley, Quaker run, Red House 

 valley etc. 

 Carya cordiformis (Wang) K. Koch. Bitternut 



In moist, usually fertile soil. Infrequent. Quaker 

 Bridge and elsewhere in the Allegheny and Tun- 

 ungwant valleys. 

 Carya glabra (Mill.) Sweet. Pignut 



In moist soil along streams and bottomlands. In- 

 frequent in the lower valleys. Quaker Bridge. 

 Carya ovata (Mill.) K. Koch. Shagbark Hickory 



In moist or dry, usually fertile soil. Occasional 

 on the lower forested slopes of the park area but 

 most abundant in the Tunungwant valley and the 

 Allegheny valley between Salamanca and Olean. 



BETULACEAE (Birch Family) 

 Corylus americana Walt. Hazelnut 



Frequent in thickets of the larger stream valleys 

 and on the bottomlands of the Allegheny river. 

 Corylus cornuta Marsh. C. rostrata Ait. Beaked Hazel- 

 nut 

 Locally common in poor or sterile soil along the 

 larger valleys. Huckleberry hill. Cold Spring, Car- 

 rollton etc. 



