Acer saccharinum, 
THE SUGAR MAPLE. 
Synonymes. 
Acer saccharinum, 
Erable a sucre, 
Zucker A horn, 
Acero zuccheroso, Acero del Canada, 
Ininawtig, 
' LiNN.aEus, Species Plantarum. 
De Candolle, Prodromus. 
Michaux, North American Sylva. 
-^ Don, Miller's Dictionary. 
Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana. 
Lotjdon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
k Torrey and Gray, Flora of North America 
France. 
Germany. 
Italy. 
Ojibway Indians. 
Rock Maple, Hard Maple, Bird's-eye Ma- ) 
pie, Sugar Maple, Sugar-tree, Black > Britain and Anglo-America. 
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, et 
v., pi. 31 ; and the figures below. 
Specific Characters. Leaves cordate, smooth, glaucous beneath, palmately 5-lobed ; lobes acuminated, 
serrately toothed. Corymbs drooping, on short peduncles. Pedicels pilose. Fruit smooth, with the 
wings diverging. Bon, Miller's Diet. 
Description. 
iHE Acer saccharinum 
is one of the most noble 
and majestic of Ameri- 
WSf^^^HM 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. They are opposite, attached by long 
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 surface, they 
