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  4 Kentucky Agricultural Ewpcrlm-cnt Station. ‘
l The list contains the names of both cultivated and wild
l _ ` plants, so that it is sometimes impossible to say whether or not a
l ’ plant recorded was actually observed growing wild about Louisville.
l Excluding those evidently introduced, such as the peach, pear and
  A . apple, the author appears to have observed 12% woody plants; tho M>
5 i when one finds _in the list such species as Azalea uudiflora, A, act
  ‘ oiscosa, Oastanca pumtla, Oalycauthus floridius, Kalmia augustlfolla . tm
  . _ and If. lattfolia, he is led to wonder as to the extent of the area con- Ra
1 sidered by the author as in the “vicinity of the town," for these ain
( Tl ‘ species are now pretty closely restricted to the mountains east and ha]
  southeast of Lexington. The following Kentucky trees and shrubs am
  are recorded in his list: » , - wi]
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l V Amorpha fruticosa, sugar maple, red maple, soft maple pri
( (Acer pennsylvania, according to M.), box elder, Aralia ing
} V spinosa, papaw, common buckeye, smooth-hulled buckeye Sm
E (Aesculus lutea, according to M.), red bud, black birch, catalpa, in
~ trumpet creeper, hackberry, chestnut, chinquepin chestnut,
l_ hornbeam (Carpinus), hazel nut, flowering dogwood, Canadian the
l» dogwood (Cornus canadensis), upright dogwood (C. stricta), ma
i red-osier dogwood (C. sericea), button bush, hawthorn (C.  . for
l crus-galli, C. coccinea, O. oxyacantha), Calycanthus floridus,  _ un]
{ persimmon, leatherwood, Epigaea repens, Euonymus caro- rec·
l linensis, E. sempervirens, beech, white ash, blue ash, swamp  ` t
· lj ash, honey locust, Hydrangea arborescens, witch hazel, Amer-  ‘ Ha
”_ ican holly, black walnut, butternut, shell-bark hickory, shag- j fer
_ bark hickory, pignut, pecan, red cedar, narrow-leaved laurel, E
j broad-leaved laurel, sweet gum, sassafras, spice wood, tulip ` the
{ poplar, Mitchella repens, mulberry, cucumber tree (Magnolia  · Cm
  acuminata), Nyssa aquatica, N. sylvatiea, cottonwood, shrub  _ M
  trefoil (Ptelea trifoliata), crab—apple, hemlock, wild cherry,  Q pi
Q sycamore, black elder, bur oak, white oak, chestnut oak (yellow  · GOV
n oak), chestnut oak, willow oak, black oak, Spanish oak, red ` tha
I . oak, gooscberry, black currant, great—leaved laurel, Rhus glabra,  V of l
  i R. typhirium, R. radicans, ll. copallinum, R. suavolens, Rosa  · Cm-,
g caroliniana, R, parviflora, ll. lucida, R. palustris, R. rubiiolia,  it aut
  wild black raspberry, dewberry, blackberry, black locust, blaCl·   _.,[
{ der nut, Sruilax caduca, S. hastata, black elderberry, red elder-  { M
li berry, Salix nigra. S. sericea, trumpet Hower, linden, whiié ·‘  me
l elm, red elm, Viburnum acerifolium, V. prunifolium, V- ma,
l° » dentatum, V. lentago, Vitis vulpina, V. labrusca, V. aestivaliS,  , ncsg
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