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THE NATIVE TREES OF W"EST VIRGINIA. 



Uses. — Very valuable wood. Used for agricultural implements, 

 handles of various kinds, baskets, vehicles, and fuel. Pro- 

 duces delicious nuts. 



HICORIA LACINIOSA, Sarg. Big Shellbark. Bottom 

 Shellbark. 



Geographic Distrihution. 



Rich deep bottom-lands usually inundated during several 

 weeks of the year from Iowa to southeastern Nebraska, through 

 Missouri and Arkansas, eastern Kansas and the eastern portion 

 of the Indian Territory, through southern Illinois and Indiana 

 to East Tennessee, southern Michigan, western and central New 

 York, eastern Pennsylvania and middle North Carolina; rare 

 and local east of the Alleghany mountains and comparatively 

 rare in Arkansas, Kansas and the Indian Territory; one of the 

 commonest trees of the great river swamps of central jNIis- 

 souri and the lower Ohio basin. 



Distrihution in West Virginia. — Rare. Found in Ohio river bot- 

 toms near Point Pleasant, in Mason county, and near 

 Parkersburg, in Wood county. Probably grows at many 

 points along the Ohio river. Reported by ]\Iillspaugh from 

 Ice's Ferry on Cheat river, near Morgantown. 



Wood. — Similar to that of the last species of hickory described 

 above. 



Uses. — Not commercially important in West Virginia on account 

 of the scarcity of the tree. Wood used as in other species 

 of this genus. 



KICORIA ALBA, Britt. Mockernut. Big Bud Hickory. 



Geographic Distribution. 



Southern Ontario southward to Cape Canaveral and the 

 shores of Tampa Bay, Florida, and westward to eastern Kan- 

 sas, the Indian Territory and eastern Texas; comparatively 

 rare at the north, growing on ridges and less frequently on 

 alluvial river bottoms; the most abundant and generally dis- 

 tributed of the hickory trees of the south, attaining its largest 

 size in the basin of the lower Ohio river and in Missouri and 

 Arkansas; the only hickory in the southern maritime pine-belt, 

 growing in great abundance on low sandy hummocks close to 

 the shores of bays and estuaries along the coast of the south 

 Atlantic and Gulf states. 



