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Rocky Mountains and interior ranges to 

 southern' New Mexico, Arizona and cen- 

 tral Nevada. 



Much resembles Poplar in the character 

 of its pulp and the ease with which its 

 wood yields to treatment. 



COTTONWOOD {Poplus monilifero) . 

 Shores of Lake Champlain, Vermont, 

 south through western New England to 

 Chattahoochee region of western Florida, 

 west along the northern shores of Lake 

 Ontario to the eastern base of the ranges 

 of the Rocky Mountains of Montana, Colo- 

 rado and New Mexico. 



Much resembles Poplar in the character 

 of its pulp and the ease with which the 

 wood yields to treatment. 



SWEET GUM {Liquidambar styra- 

 ciflna). Fairfield County, Connecticut, 

 to the valleys of the lower Ohio, White 

 and Wabash Rivers, south to Cape Ca- 

 naveral and Tampa Bay, Florida, south- 

 west through southern Missouri, Arkansas 

 and the Indian Territory to the valley of 

 the Trinity River, Texas; in central and 

 southern Mexico. 



Yields easily to chemical processes a 

 short fiber, much resembling that of Poplar. 



CYPRESS {Taxodiumdistichum}. Sus- 

 sex County, Delaware, south near the coast 

 to Mosquito Inlet and Cape Romano, 

 Florida, west through the Gulf States 

 near the coast to the valley of the Mueces 

 River, Texas, and through Arkansas to 

 western Tennessee, western and northern 

 Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, and 

 southern Illinois and Indiana. 



Easily reduced to pulp by sulphite proc- 

 ess. Unbleached fiber is rather dark in 

 color, and woolly ; bleaches readily, and 

 then much resembles that of Spruce. 



BEECH {Fagus ferrnginea). Nova 

 Scotia and the valley of the Restagouche 

 River to the northern shores of Lake 

 Huron and northern Wisconsin, south to 

 the Chattahoochee region of western 

 Florida and the valley of the Trinity 

 River, Texas, west to eastern Illi- 

 nois, southeastern Missouri, and Madison 

 County, Arkansas (Letterman). 



Rather more difficult to reduce than 

 Poplar; fibers somewhat shorter; pulp 

 soft, and easily bleached. 



SILVER MAPLE (Acer dasy car punt}.- 

 Valley of Saint John River, New Bruns- 

 wick, to Ontario, south of latitude 45 de- 

 grees, south to western Florida : west to 

 eastern Dakota, eastern Nebraska, the val- 

 ley of the Blue River, Kansas, and the In- 

 dian Territory. 



More difficult to reduce than Poplar ; 

 fibers somewhat shorter ; pulp soft and 

 easily bleached ; rarely used, and only by 

 soda mills. 



BASS WOOD ( Tit '/a Americana} . North- 

 ern New Brunswick, westward in British 

 America to about iozd meridian ; south- 

 ward to Virginia, and along the Alleghany 

 Mountains to Georgia and southern Ala- 

 bama ; extending west in the United States 

 to eastern Dakota, eastern Nebraska, east- 

 ern Kansas, the Indian Territory, and 

 southwest to the valley of the San Antonio 

 River, Texas. 



Very easily reduced, and yields by soda 

 process pulp similar to that of Poplar. 



WHITE BIRCH {Betula alba). New 

 Brunswick and the valley of the lower 

 Saint Lawrence River to the southern 

 shores of Lake Ontario; south, generally 

 near the coast, to New Castle County, Dela- 

 ware. 



Easily reduced. The pulp much resem- 

 bles that of Poplar. 



PAPER BIRCH {Betnla -papyrifera). 

 Northern Newfoundland and Labrador to 

 the southern shores of Hudson Bay, and 

 northwest to the Great Bear Lake, and the 

 valley of the Yukon River, Alaska, south 

 in the Atlantic region to Wading River, 

 Long Island, the mountains of northern 

 Pennsylvania, Clear Lake, Montcalm 

 County, Michigan, northeastern Illinois, 

 and Saint Cloud, Minnesota ; in the Pa- 

 cific region south to the Black Hills of 

 Dakota (R. Douglas), the Mullen Trail 

 of the Bitter Root Mountains and Flat- 

 head Lake, Montana, the neighborhood 

 of Fort Colville, Washington (Watson), 

 and the valley of the lower Fraser River, 

 British Columbia (Engleman and Sar- 

 gent). 



Somewhat more difficult to reduce than 

 Poplar. Pulp easily bleached and simi- 

 lar to that of Poplar. 



BUCKEYE (Aesculzts glabra}. Western 



