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Tlie Striped Maple, although a larger tree 

 than the Mountain Maple, with which it is 

 geiu'raily associated, only occasionally attains 

 the height of 30 or 40 ft. with a trunk 8 or 10 

 in. in thickness, and is ( ftcn a large shruh. 

 This also is a shade-loving tree, being found 

 scattered through forests of the Sugar IMaplc, 

 Yellow Birch. IJcech, Hemlock. Red Spruce, 

 Butternut, etc., but is occasionally found iso 

 lated, having then a rather wide or rounded 

 top of upright and spreading branches. Its 

 handsome large leaves and gracefully drooping 

 stems of yellow flowers, borne on smooth 

 striped branches of rare coloration, overhang 

 the waters of nearly every forest-covered 

 mountain stream within its range, and in 

 northern regions are eagerly devoured by 

 nioose and deer, for which reason it is some- 

 times called the Mooseuood. 



Ite wood is of a rich pinkish brown color 

 with abundant lighter sap-wood usually dotted 

 and streaked with pith-flecks. A cubic foot 

 when dry weighs 32.02 Ibs.i 



Lcavrx palmately S-lohed at apex with short 

 afiiminato lobes, sharpl.v d<nilil.v sorrate, cordnti' 

 (ir rounded at liaso. puliosccnt at first but finaH.v 

 {rIal)rous. yollowisti green aliovo. palor lioneatli. 

 thin, prominentl.v veined tnrninR pale .vellow in 

 autumn ; petioles stout. Flnirvrn, in late spring' 

 when the leaves are nearly full grown, brisbt 

 yellow. aboTit '/> in. across in slender droopin-; 

 racemes 4-6 in. long : sepals shorter and narrower 

 than the obovate petals : stamens 7-8. shorter 

 than the petals : ovary glabrous : styles columnar 

 and stigmas recurved. Fruit drooping, glabrous, 

 widely divergent, wings about % in. long, the 

 seed bearing portion pitted one side ; seed about 

 1/4 in. long. 



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