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THE NATIVE TREES OP WEST VIRGINIA. 



Calhoun: frequent near Grantsville. 



Fayette: near Fayetteville. 



Grant: on Lunice creek. 



Hampshire : few trees near Romney. 



Hardy: common near Moorefield. 



Kanawha: common near Charleston. 



Lewis: few trees near Weston. 



McDowell : few trees on ridge north of Welch. 



Mercer: common near Princeton. 

 Wood. — Heavy, hard, close-grained, durable. 

 Uses. — ^Valuable for posts, interior finish of houses, furniture^ 



boards, cross-ties, staves, and vehicles. 



QUERCUS MACROCARPA, Michx. Burr Oak. Mossy 



Cup Oak. 



Geographic Distrihution. 



Low rich bottom-lands and intervales or rarely in the north- 

 west on low dry hills; Nova Scotia and New Brunswick west- 

 ward through the valley of the St. Lawrence river to Ontario, 

 and along the northern shores of Lake Huron to southern Man- 

 itoba, southward to the valley of the Penobscot river, Maine, to 

 the shores of Lake Champlain, Vermont, vrestern Massachusetts, 

 Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, central Tennessee, the Indian 

 Territory and the valley of the Nueces river, Texas, westward 

 to the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Montana, v/est- 

 ern Nebraska and central Kansas; attaining its largest size in 

 southern Indiana and Illinois; the common oak of the "oak 

 openings" of western Minnesota, and in all the basin of the 

 Red River of the North, ranging farther to the northwest than 

 the other oaks of eastern America; common and generally dis- 

 tributed in Nebraska, and of a large size in canons or on river 

 bottoms in the extreme western part of the state; the most 

 generally distributed oak of Kansas, growing to large size in 

 all the eastern part of the state. 



Distribution in West Virginia. — Rare. 



Hardy : one tree near head of Mudlick run along Romney 



and Moorefield turnpike. 

 Grant : few trees on Lunice creek. 



Reported from Long Reach, Tyler county, by Millspaugh. 

 Uses. — A valuable timber tree in some states, but too rare in 

 West Virginia to be of any commercial importance. "Wood 

 used for same purposes as that of white oak. 



