Acer saccharhium, 

 THE SUGAR MAPLE. 



Synonymes, 



Acer saccharmum, 



Erable a sucre, 



Zucker Ahorn, 



Acero zuccheroso, Acero del Canada, 



Ininawtig, 



' LiNN^us, Species Plantarum. 



De Candolle, Prodroinus. 



MicuAUx, North American Sylva. 

 { Don, Miller's Dictionary. 



Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana. 



Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 

 ^ Torrey and Gray, Flora of North America 



France. 



Germany^ 



Italy. 



Ojibway Indians. 



Maple, Hard Maple, Bird's-eye Ma- ) 

 , Sugar fllaple. Sugar-tree, Black | Britain ahd Anglo- America. 



Rock 

 pie 

 Sugar-tree, Sap-tree, 



Derivations. The specific name is derived from the Latin saccharum, sugar, having reference to the sugar contained in the 

 sap. 



Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 42; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, i., figure 122, pp. 446 et 447, el 

 v., pi. 31 ; and the figures below. 



Speci/ic Characters. Leaves cordate, smooth, glaucous beneath, palmately 5-lobed ; lobes acuminated, 

 serrately toothed. Corymbs drooping, oa short peduncles. Pedicels pilose. Fruit smooth, with the 

 wings diverging. Don, 3IiUer's Diet. 



Description. 



Acer sacchariniim 

 is one of the most noble 

 and majestic of Ameri- 

 can trees. In favoura- 

 ble situations it sometimes grows to a height 

 of seventy or eighty feet, and from two' to four 

 feet in diameter; but usually it does not ex- 

 ceed an elevation of fifty or sixty feet, and a 

 diameter of twelve or eighteen inches. The 

 trunk is generally straight, though often stud- 

 ded with projections and excrescences. In all 

 healthful and vigorous trees, the outward bark 

 is light-coloured, by which they may readily 

 be distinguished. When growing in open sit- 

 uations, with room to' spread on every side, 

 where all its branches are exposed to the free 

 action of light, this tree is an object of great 

 beauty. It somewhat resembles the English 

 oak, in its outline, in the form of its trunk, and 

 disposition of its branches, and in the dense and massy character of its foliage. 

 The leaves are from three to five inches broad ; but they vary in length, accord- 

 ing to the age and vigour of the tree. Tlicy are opposite, attached by lone 

 petioles, palmated or unequally divided into five lobes, entire at the edges, of a 

 bright-green above, whitish, and very pubescent at first, but later, minutely so. 

 or nearly glabrous beneath : and except in the colour of the under siyface, the\ 



