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Fraser Umbrella {Magnolia fraseri), sometimes called 

 water lily tree, ranges through portions of western Flor- 

 ida. It is thirty or forty feet high and 18 or 20 inches 

 in diameter. The wood is soft, light, and weak. 



Garber Stopper (Eugenia garberi) is scarce and is 

 found in the extreme south of the State. 



Geigertree (Cordia sebestina) is 25 or 30 feet high, six 

 inches or less in diameter, and is scarce. The wood is 

 brown, heavy, and hard. 



Golden Fig {Ficus aurea) is a parasitic tree reaching 

 its best development in the south of Florida,' where it may 

 be three or four feet in diameter and fifty or sixty high. 

 It is one of the lightest, weakest woods in this coun- 

 try, and is subject to very rapid decay. 



Gi'een Ash (Fraxinus lanceolata) is found in small 

 quantity in the northern part of the State. 



Green Haw (Crataegus viridis). — ^This is generally a 

 shrub, but is sometimes 30 feet high, with trunk a foot 

 or more in diameter. 



Guettarda (Guettarda elliptica). or nakedwood as some 

 call it, grows on the southern keys, and is small, but 

 the wood is heavy and hard. 



Guiama Plum (Drypetes heyensis) has its range on the 

 southern keys, where it develops a trunk five or six inches 

 in size. The dark brown wood is hard, heavy, and brittle. 



Gumbo Limbo (Busera simaruha), or West Indies birch, 

 is sometimes 60 feet high and three in diameter. The 

 wood is soft, weak, spongy, light, and of a brown color. 

 Its range is in the southern part of the State. 



Gurgeon Stopper (Eugenia busc'ifolia) is confined to 

 the south of the State, where it is usually a shrub, but 

 is sometimes twenty feet high and a foot in diameter. The 

 wood is brown, shaded with red; and is very heavy and 

 exceedingly hard. 



