662 THE VEGETATION OF THE LOWER WABASH VALLEY. 
could be measured satisfactorily. Very many trees seen and for 
these reasons not measured would materially swell the figures in 
the first two columns. 
TABLE OF MAXIMUM SIZE ACCORDING TO TAPE LINE MEASUREMENTS. 
Length of Circumference 
Total Height. | trunk to first) at 3 to 5 feet 
branch. from g H 
EE 
Sycamore Entada occidentalis).* 168 68 : BBG eee eeeeenveee 
Tulip Poplar (Liriodend ipifera) t182 91 p 
Pecan (Carya olivæformis) 175 90 llena 
White Ash (Fraxi Americana) 144 90 Iheeesrsrreneee 
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) 120 60 aaoi eetk deas 
“Spanish Oak” (Q tinctoria?) 150 75 goa 
Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) 162 70 welDDengeceeenenene 
White Oak (Quercus alba) 142 60 RE UTE SE 
Cottonwood (Populus monilifera) t..... 165 TB pesnercseeres ero 
Honey Locust ( Gleditschia triacanthos). 120 n EEE E 3 a 
Sweet Gum (Liquidambar sty iflua) §. (144 70 Beis Meann bias 
Red Maple (Acer rubrum) 108 i. cok See aE E 
Bart o Aa a a N oer e ea a arenes Meret i 
Sassafras (Sassafı ficinale) * los 1 75 So see 
Mulberry (Morus rubra) 60 20 seii 
TABLE OF AVERAGE DIMENSIONS. > 
SYCAMORE (Platanus occidentalis). 
pai be ge i (Only one tree measured). 
Cire. ne ti “Mean of 9 trees. 
This is certainly the largest, both in height and bulk, of all oo 
trees of the Mississippi Valley. Its form is very yar’ 
See | have 
*Only one tree measured for height, and this by no means A ta one T 
_told on the very best authority of trunks forty feet in circumfer wa ere ce, and bare 
I know of on ty-two pot in cire eve 
t one, not —— by myself, thirty pp is thirty-ere™ 
been. or of a stump in Posey County, Indiana, which aroun 
feet in 
or more 
“tthe tallest cottonwoods are no doubt one hundred and eighty feet 
much more in ele 
‘§The tallest sweet gums are certainly 160-180 feet, perhaps 
With clear shafts of over a hundred feet in length. 
