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CELASTRACEAE (Staff Tree Family) 

 Evonymus obovatus Nutt. Running Strawberry Bush 

 In moist, fertile humus of upland forests. Very 

 rare. Headwaters of Stoddard brook, Rock City four 

 miles north of Salamanca. Doubtless more abundant 

 before the park area was lumbered. 

 Celastrus scandens L. American Bittersweet 



In moist thickets along streams and bottomlands. 

 Infrequent. North of Quaker Bridge etc. 



ACER ACE AE (Maple Family) 

 Acer saccharinum L. Silver Maple 



In alluvial soil and low swampy woods along the 

 Allegheny and Tunungwant valleys. Infrequent. 

 Acer rubrum L. Red Maple, Soft Maple 



Common in the swampy woods and moist or wet 

 alluvial soil of the Allegheny and Tunungwant valleys 

 and in moist woods on the slopes and ridges through- 

 out the park area. 

 Acer saccharum Marsh. Sugar or Rock Maple 



A very common and characteristic forest tree of 

 all portions of the park area, and occasional on the 

 lowlands of the valleys, less frequent or rare on the 

 conglomerate soils of the higher ridges. 

 Acer pennsylvanicum L. Striped Maple, Moosewood 

 In moist soil of ravines and slopes throughout most 

 sections of the park area above the lower valleys, 

 especially abundant in the sterile conglomerate soils 

 of some of the higher ridges. 

 Acer spicatum Lam. Mountain Maple 



In damp soil and wet gravelly or stony places 

 along most of the streams of the park above the 



