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Staminate and pistillate in separate clusters. Fruit on long 
drooping pedicels, ripening in the spring. Wings divergent 
at maturity. 
Most abundant on low wet ground, but sometimes found 

Fig. 44. Acer rubrum. 
growing on hillsides. Quebec, Ontaria, Florida and west to 
Iowa and Texas. 
The wood is used for furniture, flooring and finishing. 
6. Acer Drummondi Hooker and Arnot. Drummond’s 
Maple. A medium sized tree with whitish scaly bark. Leaves 
long stalked, deep green above, whitish and wooly below, 
3-lobed, the lobes sharp pointed, and coarsely toothed. Flow- 
ers red, in clusters, staminate and pistillate on different trees. 
Fruit a two-winged samara with slender pedicel and large 
convergent wings. 
In viver swamps, Georgia, Florida and Texas. 
RULAC Adams. Box Elders. 
Meee, AIT POIs SPOOL ai. ss or siara2ee + bce ee ole oe ee R. Negundo. 
ered EDC TAICH MAING 2 i. ais oly oo, flaws le asveue w a’wcee R. Texana. 
1. Rulac Negundo (L.) A. S. Hitchcock. Box Elder. A 
medium sized tree with short trunk, widespreading branches, 
