. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . bed at the end, and sharply are much eaten by The greenish flowers occur inloose, drooping racemes, and the winged fruit is smooth, f inch inlength. The bright red winter-buds are stalked. The wood is light, soft, and close-grained ; light brown in color ; 4 •50 TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. the thick sapwood of 30 to 40 layers of annual growth, still is not used in North Carolina. Acer barbatum, Michaux.* (sugar maple, sugar-tree, eock maple.) A large tree of great commercial value, with a broad round topwhen ol
. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . bed at the end, and sharply are much eaten by The greenish flowers occur inloose, drooping racemes, and the winged fruit is smooth, f inch inlength. The bright red winter-buds are stalked. The wood is light, soft, and close-grained ; light brown in color ; 4 •50 TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. the thick sapwood of 30 to 40 layers of annual growth, still is not used in North Carolina. Acer barbatum, Michaux.* (sugar maple, sugar-tree, eock maple.) A large tree of great commercial value, with a broad round topwhen old, and light gray-brown deeply furrowed bark, reaching aheight of 120 and a diameter of 4 feet. (Plate IV.) It grows in rich woods, often forming extensive forests, and ismost abundant in the mountains. It occurs from southern New-foundland to the Lake of the Woods, southward to northern Ala-bama and western Florida, and westward to Minnesota, easternNebraska, Kansas and Texas ; reaching its best development in theregion of the great It occurs throughout this State, growing to an average heightof from 50 to 80 feet and a diameter of 2 to 3 feet, but is most com-mon in the mountains. It is a small tree in the Piedmont plateauand reduced to a mere shrub in the coastal plain region, where itis confined to borders of streams and swamps. (Fig- 6.). The sugar maple bears seed about every third or fourth are very abundant in the woods, and bear dense shaderemarkably well; they spring up quickly in thinned woods, also,and where lumbering has been in progress. *Acer saccharinum, Wagn. K/C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. BXilitETtN 6. PLATE IV.
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