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NAMES IN USE 



Blue Beech (N. H., Vt., R. I., N. Y., 



Pa., Miss., Tex., Kv., Mich., Iowa, 



Nebr., Minn., Ohio, Ont.). 

 Water Beech (R. I., N. Y., Pa., Del., 



W. Va., Ohio, 111., Ind., Mich., Minn., 



Nebr., Kans.). 

 Hornbeam (Me., X. H., Mass., Conn.' 



R. I., X. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., W. Va., 



N. C, S. C, Ala., La., Tex., Ky., 111., 



Rans., Minn.). 



Ironwood (Me., Vt., Mass., R. L, N. Y., 

 N. J., Pa., Del., W. Va., N. C, S. C, 

 Fla., Ala., La., Tex., Mo., Wis., 111., 

 Iowa, Kans., Minn., Ohio, Nova 

 Scotia) . 



0-tan-tahr-te-weh = "A lean tree" (In- 

 dians, X. Y.). 



American Hornbeam (Hort. and lit.). 



OSTRYA Scopuli 



Ostrya virginiana (Miller) Koch. 



Hop -hornbeam. 



Range. — From Cape Brenton Island and Bay of Chaleur (and along St. 

 Lawrence and Lower Ottawa Rivers and over northern shores of Lake Huron) 

 to western Ontario; south to northern Florida (near Jacksonville); westward to 

 Manitoba, northern Minnesota, Xorth Dakota, South Dakota (Black Hills), 

 eastern and northern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma; and 

 eastern Texas. 



NAMES IN USE 



Hop-hornbeam (Vt., R. I., Mass., 

 X. Y., X. J., Pa., Del., N. C, S. C, 

 Ala., Tex., Ark., Ohio, 111., Ind., 

 Wis., Minn., Kans., Xebr., S. Dak.). 



Ironwood (R. I., X. Y., X. J., Pa., 

 Del., W. Va., X. C, S. C, Ala., La., 

 Tex., Ark., Ky., Ohio, Ind., 111., 

 Iowa, Mich., Wis., Minn., S. Dak., 

 Nebr., Ont.). 



Leverwood (Vt., Mass., R. I., N. Y., 



Pa., Kans.). 

 Hornbeam (R. I., N. Y., Fla., S. C, 



La.). 

 Hardhack (Vt.). 

 American Hophornbeam (lit.). 

 Deerwood. 



Ostrya virginiana glandulosa (Spach) Sargent. 50 



Range. — From Quebec and Ontario through western New England, western 

 New York, and eastern Michigan; occurring also in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Appalachian Mountains, northern Illinois, southwestern Missouri, and in Okla- 

 homa. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly distinguished (in 1841) as Ostrya Vir- 

 ginica a glandulosa Spach. 



Ostrya knowltonii Coville. 



Western Hop-hornbeam. 



Range. — Arizona (canyon of the Colorado River, 70 miles north of Flagstaff, 

 where Tolfree P. O. is located. Abundant along the trail leading to the bottom 

 of the canyon, at 6,000 to 7,000 feet elevation; in Oak Creek Canyon, 30 miles 

 south of Flagstaff); Utah (Grant County, on^Grand River — fide M. E. Jones). 



Knowlton Hop-hornbeam. 



NAMES IN USE 



Western Hop-hornbeam. 



BETULA Linnaeus 



*Betnla lenta Linnaeus. 



Sweet Birch. 



Range. — Southern Maine to northwestern Vermont, Michigan, Ohio, Ken- 

 tucky, and Delaware, and in the eastern mountains to Georgia and Alabama. 



"This form was neglected until 1919, when C. S. Sargent (Bot. Gaz., LXVII, 216, 1919) proposed to 

 revive it under its present name. It seems possible that Ostrya Baileyi Rose of western Texas (Guadaloupe 

 Mountains) is the same as this variety. Bailey's Hornbeam occurs as far east as Oklahoma. 



