Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana)

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TREES OF INDIANA

(First Revised Edition)

by

CHAS. C. DEAM







April, 1921

Fort Wayne Printing Company
Contractors for Indiana State Printing and Binding
Fort Wayne, Indiana
1921

The Department of Conservation
State of Indiana
W. A. Guthrie, Chairman.
Stanley Coulter.
John W. Holtzman.
E. M. Wilson, Secretary.

Publication No. 13

Richard Lieber.
Director.


[Illustration: Plate 1.

SYCAMORE NEAR WORTHINGTON. IND., THE LARGEST BROAD-LEAVED TREE IN THE
U. S. FIVE FEET ABOVE THE GROUND IT IS 42 FT. 3 IN. IN CIRC.; THE EAST
BRANCH IS 27 FT. 3 IN. IN CIRC. AND THE WEST BRANCH IS 23 FT. 2 IN.
IN CIRC. SEE JOUR. HEREDITY, VOL. 6:407:1915.]




Preface


The first edition of Deam's "Trees of Indiana" was published in 1911.
By limiting the distribution, the edition of 10,000 lasted about three
years. The demand for a book of this kind was so great that a second
edition of 1,000 copies was published in March 1919. This edition was
exhausted within five days after its publication was announced, and
thousands of requests for it could not be filled. These came from all
classes of people, but the greatest demand was from the school teachers
of the State.

Since forestry is an integral part of agriculture which is now taught in
our public schools, and since a book on the trees of the State is in
demand, the Conservation Commission has authorized a revised edition of
"The Trees of Indiana." What was formerly Bulletin No. 3 of the Division
of Forestry is now published as Publication No. 13 of the Department.
The reader's attention is called to a new departure in illustrations,
which were made from photographic reproductions of specimens in Mr.
Deam's herbarium. The photographs were taken by Mr. Harry F. Dietz of
the Division of Entomology. It is believed that it will be gratefully
received by the public and will stimulate an interest in forestry that
should achieve practical results.

  RICHARD LIEBER,
  Director, The Department of Conservation.




Table of Contents.


  Preface                                                       7

  List of illustrations                                        10

  Introduction                                                 13

  Key to families                                              17

  Trees of Indiana                                             19

  Excluded Species                                            290

  Measurements of some large trees that grow in Indiana       297

  Specific gravity of Indiana woods                           299

  Index                                                       305




Illustrations.


  PLATE NUMBER              PLATES                                  PAGE

      1. Frontispiece; Sycamore, largest hardwood tree in U.S.         5
      2. Pinus Strobus (White Pine)                                   21
      3. Pinus Banksiana (Gray or Jack Pine)                          23
      4. Pinus virginiana (Scrub Pine)                                24
      5. Larix laricina (Tamarack)                                    27
      6. Tsuga canadensis (Hemlock)                                   29
      7. Taxodium distichum (Cypress)                                 31
      8. Thuja occidentalis (Arbor-Vitæ)                              33
      9. Juniperus virginiana (Red Cedar)                             35
     10. Salix nigra (Black Willow)                                   37
     11. Salix amygdaloides (Peach-leaved Willow)                     39
     12. Salix alba (White Willow)                                    41
     13. Salix fragilis (Crack Willow)                                42
     14. Salix discolor (Pussy Willow)                                44
     15. Populus alba (Silver-leaf Poplar)                            46
     16. Populus heterophylla (Swamp Cottonwood)                      48
     17. Populus deltoides (Cottonwood)                               49
     18. Populus grandidentata (Large-toothed Aspen)                  51
     19. Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen)                          53
     20. Juglans cinerea (Butternut)                                  55
     21. Juglans nigra (Black Walnut)                                 57
     22. Carya illinoensis (Pecan)                                    60
     23. Carya cordiformis (Pignut Hickory)                           62
     24. Carya ovata (Shellbark Hickory)                              64
     25.