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THE NATIVE TREES OF WEST VIRGiNIA. 



CRAT^GUS PUNCTATA, Jacq. Large-fruited Thorn. 



Geographic Distrihution. 



Rich hillsides; valley of the Chateaugay river, Queheck, to 

 the valley of the Detroit river, Ontario, southward through 

 vrestern New England, and along the Appalachian mountains 

 to northern Georgia, ascending in North Carolina and Tennessee 

 nearly 6000 feet above the sea, T^^estward through New York and 

 Ohio to southern Michigan and Illinois. 



Bistribuiion- in 'West Virginia. — Found as follows: 

 Tucker : abundant in Canaan valley. 

 Pocahontas: plentiful at Durbin and Cass. 

 Randolph : covering wide areas in almost pure growth on 



Bickle Imob. 

 Wetzel: near Jacksonburg. 

 Webster: on Elk river near Addison. 



CRAT^GUS CORDATA, Ait. Washington Thorn. 



Geographic Distrihution. 



Banks of streams in rich soil; valley of the upper Potomac 

 river, Virginia, southward in the foothill region of the Appa- 

 lachian mountains to northern Georgia and Alabama, and west- 

 ward through middle Tennessee and Kentucky to the valley of 

 the lower Wabash river, Illinois, Osage, Missouri, and south- 

 eastern Missouri to northwestern Arkansas; nowhere common. 



Distribution in West Yirginia. — Found at St. Albans, Kanawha 

 eoimty. Eeported from Ronceverte, Greenbrier county. 



PRUNUS AMERICANA, Marsh. Wild Plum. 



Geographic Distribution. 



In the middle and northern states in rich soil, growing along 

 the borders of streams and swamps, and often forming thickets 

 of considerable extent; in the south Atlantic often in river 

 swamps; west of the Mississippi river on bottom-lands and dry 

 limestone uplands; middle and northern New Jersey, and cen- 

 tral New York to Nebraska; the valley of the upper I^rissourl 

 river in Montana, the eastern slopes of the Rocky ]\Iountain3 

 of Colorado, and southward to the Chattahoochee region of 

 western Florida, the valley of the Rio Grande in southern New 

 Mexico, and the mountains of northern New Mexico: most 

 abundant and of its largest size in southern Arkansas and east- 

 ern Texas. 



