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THE NATI\^ TREES OF WEST VIRGINIA. 



Randolph: near Cheat Bridge, with red spruce in and 

 around a small swampy area drained by Blister run, 

 a tributar^^ of Shavers Fork of Cheat river. 



Pocahontas: a few trees scattered along the East Fork of 

 Greenbrier river near its head, about 2 miles south 

 of Big Sinks. A swamp containing about 40 acres 

 was overgrown with this species until recently when 

 the trees were nearly ail cut down to improve the 

 pasture. 



Tucker : head of Blackwater Fork of Cheat river, sparsely 

 distributed over a high basin known as Canaan Val- 

 ley. Now chiefly confined to the margin of ]McDon- 

 ald Glade where it forms a dense thicket. Said to 

 have once grown one mile north of the town of 

 Thomas. This handsome evergreen, which is at home 

 on the mountains of some of the southern states, 

 reaches the northern limit of its range at the Tucker 

 county station. 

 Wood. — Light, soft, coarse-grained. 



Uses. — Not commercially important in West Virginia. Occa- 

 sionally sawed into lumber. Wood used for poles, posts, 

 etc., in some sections, and mixed with spruce for pulp- 

 wood. Eesinous liquid often collected from "blisters" on 

 the bark and used as a medicine. Planted locally in yards 

 and lavtTis as an ornamental tree. 



THUYA OCCIDENTALIS, L. White Cedar. Arbor-vitae. 



Geographic Distribution. 



Frequently forming nearly impenetrable forests on s^'ampy 

 ground or often occupying the rocky banks of streams, from 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, northwestward to the mouth 

 of the Saskatchewan, and southv/ard through the northern 

 states to southern New Hampshire central Massachusetts and 

 New York, northern Pennsylvania, central Michigan, northern 

 Illinois, and central Minnesota, and along the high Alleghany 

 mountains to southern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee; 

 very common at the north, less abundant and of smaller size 

 southward; on the southern Alleghany mountains only at high 

 elevations. 



