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PLATAN ACEAE (Plane Tree Family) 

 Platanus occidentalis L. Sycamore, Buttonwood 



A frequent tree along the alluvial banks of the 

 Allegheny river. 



ROS ACEAE (Rose Family) 

 Spiraea alba DuRoi, S. salicifolia, Gray's Man. Meadow- 

 sweet 

 Marshy or wet open places. Very rare. Upper 

 Quaker run. 

 Filipendula rubra (Hill) Robinson. Queen of the 

 Prairie , 



In fields, yards and thickets of the Allegheny 

 valley, rare. Near Quaker Bridge apparently native, 

 but also appearing as a relic of cultivation about the 

 sites of former dwellings. 

 Filipendula Ulmaria (L.) Maxim. Queen of the 

 Meadow 

 About the sites of former dwellings on the Alle- 

 gheny bottomlands, a relic of cultivation. 

 Gillenia trifoliata (L.) Moench. Bowman's Root, 

 False Ipecac, Indian Physic 

 In sandy, gravelly or stony soil, usually somewhat 

 sterile, on open banks or in thin oak woods chiefly 

 in the Allegheny valley. Infrequent. Tunasassa, 

 Peters run, along the road from Quaker Bridge to- 

 ward Steamburg etc. 

 P'yrus communis L. Pear 



Frequent in cultivation but self-sown trees are 

 rarely found. 

 Malus pumila Mill., Pyrus Mains. L., Mains Mains 

 (L.) Britt. Common Apple 

 Common in cultivation. Self-seeded wild trees 

 are occasionally found. 



