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Division 2 SPERMATOPHYTA 



Subdivision 1 Gymnospermae 

 TAX ACE AE (Yew Family) 



Taxus canadensis Marsh. American Yew, Ground 

 Hemlock 

 In low, moist humus, usually under hemlocks or 

 other conifers. Rare. Woods along Quaker run, 

 woods near Quaker Bridge, tall timber on upper 

 headwaters of Red House creek, headwaters of 

 Stoddard brook, Tunungwant valley etc. 



PIN ACE AE (Pine Family) 



Pinus Strobus L. White Pine 



According to old residents of the region, once a 

 common forest tree on most of the lower slopes and 

 in the valleys. Now confined to a few scattering 

 trees within the park area, and a fair-sized grove of 

 second growth young trees on a slope along the lower 

 part of Quaker run. Occasional trees are also to 

 be seen in the Allegheny valley. 

 Larix laricina (DuRoi) Koch. American Larch, Tama- 

 rack 

 Not found within the park area and known only 

 in some of the swamps and bogs along the edge of 

 the glacial drift near Steamburg and Randolph. 

 Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP. Black or Bog Spruce 



Not found within the park area, and like the 

 Tamarack found only in swamps along the edge of 

 the glacial drift. Saunders, (Roosevelt Wild Life 

 Bulletin 1:255, 1923) lists this as a tree of the 

 park area, but there are no native spruce trees in 



