BLACK MAPLE; BLACK SUGAR MAPLE (Acer nigrum, 

 Michx.). 50 to 80 feet. Distinguished from the preceding 

 species, which it closely resembles, by the almost black bark 

 of old trunks, and the orange color of the stout branchletS. 

 The foliage mass is dull, dark green. The leaves droop, they 

 are yellowish green and downy beneath, with yellow veins, 

 and pubescent petioles, much enlarged at base. The leaf 

 lobes are more pointed than the sugar maple's. The leaves 

 are larger. When they open, they are densely velvety be- 

 neath. The winged seeds are widely divergent. Dist.: Da- 

 kota to Kansas; east to New England and Virginia, 



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