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Greenbrier : from Hosterman, in Pocahontas, to Hinton, in 

 Summers. 



New: from 2 miles above Hinton to its junction with the 

 Gauley. 



Great Kanawha: scattered along its whole course, origin- 

 ally. 



Little Coal : from above Madison to its mouth. 

 Elk: from Webster county through Braxton, Clay, and 

 Kanawha. 



Guyandot : from in "Wyoming county to its mouth. 



Twelvepole : in Wayne. 



Big Sandy: plentiful. 



Little Kanawha : in Wood and Wirt. 



Potomac : from above Keyser to Harpers Ferry. 



Was not found growing along the banks of the Ohio river 

 itself. 



Wood. — ^Medium hard, light, close-grained, pale. 

 Uses. — Of no commercial value in West Virginia. Used in some 

 cases for furniture and woodenware. 



FAGUS AMERICANA, Sweet. Beech. 



Geographic Distribution. 



Ricli uplands and mountain slopes, often forming nearly pure 

 forests, and southward on the bottom-lands of streams and the 

 margins of swamps; valley of the Restigouche river, the north- 

 ern shores of Lake Huron and northern Wisconsin, southward 

 to western Florida, and through southern Illinois and south- 

 eastern Missouri to the valley of the Trinity river, Texas; one 

 of the most widely distributed trees of eastern North America; 

 of its largest size in the forests on intervale lands in the basin 

 of the lower Ohio river, and on the slopes of the southern Al- 

 leghany mountains. 



Distribution in West Virginia. — Abundant in many parts of the 

 State ; found to some extent in every county. Most plenti- 

 ful, originally, in the valley of the Great Kanawha river. 

 Infrequent in the counties of the eastern panhandle, and in 

 Summers, Mercer, McDowell, and Wyoming. 



Wood. — Tough, hard, close-grained, light red, not durable in con- 

 tact with the ground. 



