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60 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



66. Acer rubrum, Linnaeus, 



8peo.l ed.1055. Du Eoi, Diss. 59. Marshall, Arbnstuin, 3. Lamarck, Diet. )i,300; ll!.iii,438, t. e44, f. 3. Klirliart, Beitr. iv.iSJ. 

 Abbot, Insects Georgia, ii, 93. Alton, Hort. Kew. iii, 434 (excl. var.) ; 'J ed. v, 44G. Ma-ucli, Moth. 56. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. 

 ii,2.58. Pereoon, Syn. i, 417. Robin, Voy.iges, iii, 471. Nouveau Duhamel, iv,31. Willdenow, .Spec. iv,984; Enuui. ii, 1044. 

 Desfontainos in Ann. Mtis.vii,413, t. 25, f. 2; Hint. Arb. i, 391. Poiret, Suppl. ii, 574. Trattinick, Archiv. i, t. 9. Michaux t 

 HiBt.Arb.Aui.ii,210,t. 14; N. American Sylva, 3 c<l. i 149,t.4]. Pnrsh,ri. Am. Sept. i, 2(55. Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 377. Niittall, 

 Genera, i, 252. Eaton, Manual, 44 ; 6 ed. 2. Hayno, Dend. Fl. 213. EUiotr, Sk. i, 449. Torrcy, FI.U. S. 395 ; Compend. Fl. N. States, 

 160; Fl. N. York, i, 137. Watson, Dend. Brit, ii, 1. 169. Sprengel, SyHt. ii, 225. Anduboji, Biids. t. 54, 67. Taiiscb, Rcgensb. Fl. xii, 

 552. Pcnu.CycI. i,79. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Ani. i, 114 ; Jonr. Bot. i, 199. Don, Miller's Diet, i, 650. Beck, Bot. 63. Spach,Hist.Ve-. iii, 

 113; Ann.Sci. Nat. 2 ser.ii, 176. -London, Arboretum, i, 424, f. 130 &t.-Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 249, 6H4. Dietrich, Syn. 

 ii, 1282. Ealon &\Vright,Bot. 112. Bigelow,FI.Bo8ton.3ed.405. Walpers, Rep. i,4(i9. Reid in London Gard. Chronicle, 1844, 

 276. Emerson, Trees Massachusetts, 483 ; 2 ed.ii, 551 <& t. Parry in Owen's Rep. 610. Richardson, Arctic Exped. 422. Nuttall, 

 Sylva, ii, 87; 2 ed. ii, 34. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 46. Darby, Bot. S. States, 265. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 251. 

 Chapman, Fl. S. States, 81. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv.N. Carolina, 1800, iii, 50. Losquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 

 354. Wood, CI. Book, 286; Bot. &F1. 74. Engelmann in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. new ser. xii,187. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 

 79. Buchenau in Bot. Zeit. xix, 285, t. 11. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 119. Koch, Dcndrologie, i, 542. Young, Bot. Texas, 

 206. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 10. Macoun in Geological Rep. Canada, 1875-'76, 192. Sears in Bull. Essex Inst, xiii, 176. Bell in 

 Geological Rep. Canada, 1879-'80, 54<:. Nicholson in London Gard. Chronicle, 1881, 172, f. 30, 31. Eidgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mns. 1882, 62. 



? A. glamum, Marshall, Arbustum, 2. 



f A. GaroUniana, Walter, Fl.Caroliniana, 251. 



A. coccineum, Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. ii, 203 ; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. i, 142. 



A. sanguineum, Spach, Hist. Veg. ill, 115 ; Ann. Soi.Nat. 2 ser. ii, 176. Dietrich, Syn. ii, 1282. 



BED MAPLE. SWAMP MAPLE. SOFT 3IAPLE. WATER MAPLE. 



New Bruuswick, Quebec and Outario, south of latitude 49, north and west to the Lake of the Woods, south 

 to Indian and Galoosa rivers, Florida, west to eastern Dakota, eastern Nebraska, the Indian territory, and the 

 valley of the Trinity river, Texas. 



A large tree, 20 to 30 or, exceptionally, 32 meters in height, with a trunk 0.90 to 1.50 meter in diameter ; 

 borders of streams and low, wet swamps, reaching its greatest development in the valleys of the lower Wabash 

 and Yazoo rivers. 



Wood heavy, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact, easily worked ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; 

 color, brown, often tinged with red, the sap-wood lighter ; specilic gravity, 0.6178 ; a.sh, 0.37 ; largely used in cabinet- 

 making, turnery, and for woodenware, gun stocks, etc. ; an accidental variety with undulating grain is highly 

 valued. 



Ink is occasionally made, domestically^ by boiling the bark of this species in soft water and combining the 

 tannin with sulphate of iron ; formerly somewhat used in dyeing. 



Var. Drummondii. 

 A. Drummondii, Hooker & Aiuott in Hooker, Jonr. Bot. i, 199. Nuttall, Sylva, ii. 83, t. 70 ; 2 ed. ii, 30, t. 70. 



Southern Arkansas, eastern Texas, western Louisiana, and sparingly through the Gulf states to southern 

 Georgia. 



Well characterized by its obovate or truncate leaves, the base entire or slightly crenulate-toothed, densely 

 covered, as well as the petioles and young shoots, with a thick white tomentnm ; fruit convergent, the wings bright 

 red, even when fully ripe. 



A large tree, in deep, wet swami)s, connected with the species by numerous intermediate forms of Georgia, 

 Florida, and Alabama. 



Wood lighter than that of the species; specific gravity, 0.5459; ash, 0.34. 



67. Negundo aceroides, Mosnch, 



Meth. 334. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 250. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 327. Torrey in Nicollet's Rep. 147; Fremont's Rep. 88; 

 Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 73. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 92; 2 ed. ii, 38. Gray in Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 1G6 ; Mem. Am. Acad, 

 new ser. iv, 29; v, 309; Genera, ii, 202, t. 175; Pacific R. R. Rep. xii, 41; Manual N. States, 5 ed. 120. Richardson, Arctic 

 Exped. 423. Parry in Owen's Rep. 610. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 46. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 251 ; Am. Nat. 

 iii, 306. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 81. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 53. Wood, CI. Book, 287 ; Bot. & 

 Fl. 74. Engelmann in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. now ser. xii, 188. Porter in Hajdeu's Rep. 1870, 474. W^atson in King's Rep. 

 V, 52; PI. Wheeler, 7. Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colorado; Haydeu's Surv. Misc. Pub. No. 4, 19. Macoun & Gibson in Trans. Bot 

 Soc. Edinburgh, xii, 319. Young, Bot. Texas, 207. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 10. Macoun in Geological Rep. Canada, 

 1875-'76, 192. Brewer & Watson, Bot. California, i, 108. Rothrock in Wheeler's Rep. vi, 84. Hemsloy, Bot. Am.-Ccnt. i, 214. 

 Sears in Bull. Essex Inst, xiii, 176. Bell in Geological Rep. Canada, 1879-'80, 48. Nicholson in London Gard. Chronicle,1881, 

 815. Ridgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 63. Watson in Proc. Am. Acad, xvii, 338. 



