. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . d a diameter of 18 inches. It occurs from the mountains of southwestern Virginia to south-ern Alabama and western Florida, and westward through eastTennessee and northern Mississippi to the valley of the Pearlriver. It grows in the valleys of mountain streams, and reaches itsbest development on the tributaries of the Savannah river, and onthe slopes of the Black and Big Smoky mountains. Locally abun-dant, it is the least widely distributed of the American magnolias. In this State it occurs in all the counties west of the Blue Pidgeand in the weste
. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . d a diameter of 18 inches. It occurs from the mountains of southwestern Virginia to south-ern Alabama and western Florida, and westward through eastTennessee and northern Mississippi to the valley of the Pearlriver. It grows in the valleys of mountain streams, and reaches itsbest development on the tributaries of the Savannah river, and onthe slopes of the Black and Big Smoky mountains. Locally abun-dant, it is the least widely distributed of the American magnolias. In this State it occurs in all the counties west of the Blue Pidgeand in the western parts of those immediately east of it. It ismost common in Ashe, Mitchell, Yancey, Swain, Macon, Transyl-vania, and Burke counties. (Fig. 2, p. 34.) N. C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. BULLETIN 6. PLATE YELLOW POPLAR YELLOW POPLAR. 39 Seed is produced nearly every year and young seedlings areabundant in the woods. Cattle are very fond of the young trees are apt to be hollow at the butt and not uncommonlythroughout the trunk. The large leaves, which are crowded at the end of the branch-lets, are smooth, glossy, pointed at the apex and eared at the fully expanded the beautiful cream-colored flowers oftenmeasure 8 or 9 inches across. The bright rose colored fruit isoblong, i to 5 inches in length and IJ to 2 inches broad. Thelarge winter-buds are purple. The wood is light, soft, weak, close-grained ; light brown incolor; the thick sapwood creamy-white. It has no commercialvalue. Liriodendron tulipiftsra, Linnaeus. (yellow poplar, tulip tree, whitewood.) A large tree of the first commercial value, w^ith a small pyram-idal head and brownish-gray bark, reaching a height of 190 and adiameter of 10 feet. The trunk is straight and cylindrical, and inthe largest specimens
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