THE NATIVE TREES OF RHODE ISLAND. 
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Bitter-nut hickory. 
— G. amara. 
4 White elm 
— Ulmus Americana. 
Slippery elm 
Butternut 
— Juglans cinerea. 
Chestnut 
— Castanea vesca. 
* : Rock maple 
Acer sacckarinum . 
Red maple 
White maple 
Black bircli 
— Betula lenta. 
Yellow birch 
. . . ,B. lutea. 
Gray birch 
. . . B. alba. 
Canoe birch 
— B. papyracoe . 
White ash 
— Fraxinus Americana. 
Black ash 
— F. sambucifolia. 
American beech 
■ ■ ■ . Fagusferruginea. 
Blue, or water, beech 
. . . . Carpinus Americana . 
Iron wood 
. . . . Os try a Virgin tea. 
Buttonwood 
. . . .Platanus occidentals. 
Hackberry — False elm. . . 
— Celtis occidentalis. 
Basswood 
. . . . Tilia Americana. 
Tupelo — Snag tree 
Nyssa multiflora. 
Black cherry 
— Prunus serotina. 
Red cherry 
— P. Pennsylvania. 
Tulip tree 
— Liriodendron tulip if era. 
Sassafras. 
— Sasafras officinale. 
Aspen poplar 
Populus tremuloides , 
Large poplar 
— P. grandidentata. 
w* Balm of Gilead 
. . . . P. balsamifera, var. candicayxs. 
Flowering dogwood 
— Camus florida . 
Cone-bearing Trees . 
White pine 
Pinus strobus. 
Pitch pine 
P. rigida. 
Black spruce (rare) 
— Pice a nigra. 
Hemlock 
— Tsuga Canadensis.' 
Red cedar 
. . . .Juniper us Virginiana . 
f White cedar 
Cupressus thyoides. 
To the list, as given, might properly be added several kinds not 
common, or of doubtful nativity, in this State; as the black 
