414 THE NATIVE TREES OF WEST VIRGINIA. 



Charleston and Winfield; on the Elk from Turner station 

 to Charleston ; on the Little, Coal at Madison ; on the Tug 

 Fork of Big Sandy at Williamson ; on the Little Kanawaa 

 near Elizabeth; on the Monongahela at Morgantown; and 

 on the Ohio at Wheeling, Parkersburg, Point Pleasant, and 

 other points. 



Wood. — Hard, rather brittle, easily worked, close-grained, 

 brownish. 



Uses. — Wood used for flooring, boxes, crates, and for numerous 

 small household articles. Tree often planted for shade and 

 ornament. 



ACER RUBRUM, L. Red Maple. Scarlet Maple. 



Geographic Distrihiition. 



Borders of streams, low wet swamps, and rarely on hillsides; 

 latitude 49 degrees north in Quebeck and Ontario, southward to 

 the Indian and Caloosa rivers, Florida and westward to west- 

 ern Wiconsin, western Iowa, and the valley of the Trinity river, 

 Texas; one of the most common and generally distributed trees 

 of eastern North America; most abundant in the south, espe- 

 cially in the valley of the Mississippi river, and of its largest 

 size in the river swamps of the lower Ohio and its larger tribu- 

 taries; at the north often covering low wet swamps almost to 

 the exclusion of other trees. 



Distribution in West Virginia. — Occurs in all parts of the State, 

 Not frequent in the counties east of the Alleghany moun- 

 tains. 



Wood. — Medium heavy, close-grained, soft, light brown. 

 Uses. — Furniture, chairs, gun stocks, woodenware. 



ACER NEGUNDO, L. Box Elder. Ash-leaved Maple. 



Geograpliic Distribution. 



Banks of streams and lakes and the borders of swamps; 

 western Vermont and central New York, southward to northern 

 Florida and westward to the eastern slope of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and to Utah, New Mexico, and eastern Arizona; rare east 

 of the Appalachian mountains; most common in the Mississippi 

 basin, and of its largest size in the valley of the lower Ohio 

 river. 



