'5 6 Trees with Simple Leaves. [Bin 



Bark, smoothish ; gray, becoming dark and rough with 

 age. 



Flowers, rich crimson, on short stems in drooping clusters. 

 March, April. 



Fruit, bright red, smooth, with stems two to three inches 

 long. The wings are about one inch long. At first 

 they approach each other, but afterward are some- 

 what spreading. September. 



Found, widely distributed in swamps and along streams, 

 especially in all wet forests eastward from the Mis- 

 sissippi to the Atlantic, and from Southern Canada 

 to Florida and Texas. 



A tree thirty to sixty feet high, with wood of con- 

 siderable value, especially when it shows a "curly grain." 

 It is one of the very earliest trees to blossom in the 

 spring, and to show its autumn coloring in the fall. 



Besides the above native Maples, modified and intro- 

 duced forms are often met with in cultivation. Among 

 them are the Silver-striped Maple, the Ctit-leaved Maple 

 (with the lobes extending nearly from the base of the 

 leaf) ; the Norway Maple [A. platanoides, L.] (with a 

 leaf resembling those of the Sugar Maple, but dis- 

 tinguished from them by the milky juice of its leaf-stem, 

 and with large and very broadly flaring seed-wings) ; the 

 False Sycamore [A. pseudo-platanus] (with its leaf 

 resembling that of the Norway Maple in general shape, 

 but having its lobes much more closely and more finely 

 toothed, and with its large winged seeds short stemmed 

 and arranged in long, drooping clusters) ; and, less 

 frequently, the Japanese Maple. 



