80 TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



The appearance and habit is like that of the Sugar 

 Maple, but it is smaller and more spreading, and 

 otherwise differs in preferring lowlands, and in the 

 mostly smaller leaves which are whitish or tawny 

 pubescent beneath, with the lobes usually only undu- 

 late or scarcely toothed. The fruits also are smaller 

 and usually somewhat hairy. Dates of flowering: 

 March 28, 1909; April 1, 1912. Examples: Trees 

 along Morgan's Creek on the Mason Farm. 



128. Acer leucoderme Small. White-barked Sugar 



Maple. 



This is a small tree or only a shrub, belonging to 

 the Sugar Maple group, and mostly resembling the 

 next species. The bark is very white, the leaves 

 small, green and hairy below, not whitish, with three 

 or five narrow lobes with few or no teeth ; fruit quite 

 small, the wings broadly spreading. At present we 

 know of this in North Carolina only from Stanley 

 County where it grows along the falls of the Yadkin 

 at an elevation of about 1000 feet. 



129. Acer nigrum F. A. Michx. Black Maple. 



This tree resembles the Sugar Maple in size and 

 habit, but differs in the narrow, untoothed lobes, and 

 the green, not whitish, under surface of the leaves. 

 It is a very rare and local tree in North 'Carolina, 

 known at present only from the mountains of Ashe 

 and Mitchell Counties. 



