STRIPED MAPLE; MOOSEWOOD (Acer Pennsylvanicum, 

 Linn.). Shrub to 30 or 40 fest. Shade-loving, dainty tree of 

 rocky mountain slopes. Bark of trunk brown or green, with 

 white stripes on <tll wood below the twigs cracks showing 

 the inner layers, and forming a delicate network of furrows. 

 Leaves 5 to 6 inches long and wide, with 3 triangular lobes 

 at the broad apex, the central one slightly larger than the 

 others all coarsely saw-toothed; base heart-shaped; thin, 

 tomentose when opening, at length thin, smooth above, turn- 

 ing to orange and scarlet in autumn; petioles slender, flexible, 

 red. Flowers in June, minute, the two sorts on one stalk, 

 forming an erect, terminal raceme, yellow, bell-shaped, to- 

 mentose. Fruit red in July, turning brown; wings inch long, 

 divergent. Dist.: Northern New England and Quebec to 

 Minnesota; along the Appalachian Mountains to Georgia. 

 Largest size in Big Smoky Mountains. 



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