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quantity of the wood is small. It is found in the swamps of southern Georgia and 

 western Florida, and westward to Texas, Louisiana, and southern Arkansas. Near 

 the southwestern limits of its range in Texas and Mexico, it is often a shrub; but 

 in the best part of its range it becomes a tree fifty or sixty feet high and two or three 

 in diameter. The wood passes for hard maple when sawed into lumber, but it is not 

 often sent to sawmills. The makers of bent wood rustic furniture in some of the 

 southern towns, particularly in Louisiana, have found the slender branches of 

 Florida maple well suited to that purpose. 



DRUMMOND MAPLE (Acer rubrum drummondii) is a variety of red maple, not a 

 separate species. Its range lies in the coastal plain of Alabama and Georgia, western 

 Louisiana, eastern Texas, southwestern Tennessee, and southern Arkansas. It 

 grows in deep swamps, and has three-lobed leaves, and large- winged fruit, ripening in 

 April and May. The wood is too scarce to be important in the lumber trade, but 

 where it can be had it is used. Violin makers have procured some finely curled wood 

 of this maple in Union Parish, Louisiana. Some of the wood from that district has 

 been made into gunstocks also. 



WHITEBARK MAPLE (Acer leucoderme) has been classed as a variety of sugar 

 maple, and also as a separate species. It is named from the light gray color of the 

 bark of young stems; but the color turns dark with age. The tree is usually twenty 

 or thirty feet high with a diameter of a foot or more. The wood is of good quality, 

 but no uses, except fuel, have been reported. Trees are not abundant, but the range 

 covers parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Ar- 

 kansas. It is occasionally planted as a shade tree along the streets of towns of 

 Georgia and Alabama. 



