WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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Distribution in West Virginia. — Confmed to banks of streams. 

 Not widely distributed. Found as follows : 



Boone : few trees along Big and Little Coal rivers. 



Braxton : on Little Kanawha river at Burnsville. 



Doddridge: common along Middle Island creek. 



Fayette: common at Kanawha Falls. 



Lewis : plentiful on West Fork at Weston. 



Monongalia: plentiful on Monongahela at Morgantown. 



Tyler: on Middle Island creek near Middlebourne. 

 Wood. — Light, close-grained, soft, nearly white. 

 Uses. — Wood used for cheap furniture, woodenware and pulp. 



Often planted for shade. 



iESCULUS GLABRA, Willd. Ohio Buckeye. Fetid Buckeye. 



Geographic Distribution. 



River-bottoms and the banks of streams in rich moist soil; 

 western slopes of the Alleghany mountains, Pennsylvania to 

 northern Alabama, and westward to southern Iowa, central 

 Kansas, Indian Territory, southern Nabraska and eastern 

 Kansas; nowhere abundant; most common and of its largest 

 size in the valley of the Tennessee river in Tennessee and 

 northern Alabama. 



Distribution in West Virginia. — Not frequent. Found along the 

 Ohio river near Wheeling, Ohio county. Reported by 

 Millspaugh from Wirt, Gilmer, and Monongalia, and as 

 common along the Ohio river. 



Wood. — Light, soft, close-grained, nearly white. 



Uses. — Not commercially valuable in West Virginia. Wood used 

 in some states for woodenware, paper pulp, and occasional- 

 ly sawed into lumber. 



^SCULUS OCTANDRA, Marsh. Street Buckeye. 



Geographic Distribution. 



Rich soil of river-bottoms and moist mountain slopes, Alle- 

 gheny county, Pennsylvania, and southward along the moun- 

 tains to the neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia, and northern 

 Alabama, and westward to southern Iowa, the Indian Territory 

 and western Texas; most common and of its largest size on 

 the high mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. 



