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THE NATIVE TREES OF WEST VIRGINIA. 



Distribution in West .Virginia. — ^Widely distributed. Frequent 



in every county, grovring from the lowest elevations up to 



3,500 feet and over. 

 Wood. — Hea^^^^, very hard, strong, durable, brownish with pale 



yellow sapwood. - 

 Uses. — Very valuable for fence posts, ties, buggy hubs, pins, and 



bridge and ship timbers. 



The locust must be looked upon as an exceedingly valuable 

 tree in West Virginia. It springs up in burnt lands, 

 and cut-over areas, and in almost every locality where 

 room is made for it to grow it thrives regardless of 

 soils or exposures. Like other legumes it enriches the 

 soil by adding nitrogen wherever it stands and it is a 

 rapid grower, reaching a merchantable size within 25 

 years or less. 



RHUS HIRTA, Sudw. Staghorn Sumach. 



Geographic Distribution. 



Usually on uplands in good soil, or less commonly on sterile 

 gravelly banks and on the borders of streams and swamps; 

 New Brunswick, through the valley of the St. Lawrence river 

 to southern Ontario and Minnesota, and southward through the 

 northern states and along the Alleghany mountains to northern 

 Georgia and to central Alabama and Mississippi; more abund- 

 ant on the Atlantic seaboard than in the region west of the Ap- 

 palachian mountains. 



Distribution in West Virginia. — A small tree. Common through, 

 out the State, and reaching higher altitudes than the small- 

 er shrubby species of this genus. 



ILEX OPACA, Ait. Holly. 



Geographic Distribution. 



Coasts of Massachusetts, in the city of Quincy, southward 

 generally near the coast to the shores of Mosquito Inlet and 

 Charlotte Harbor, Florida, valley of the Mississippi river from 

 southern Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico, and through IMissouri, 

 Arkansas, and Louisiana to eastern Texas; rare and of small 

 size east of the Hudson river and rare in the Alleghany moun- 

 tain region and the country immediately west of it; most 

 abundant and of its largest size on the bottom-lands of the 



