90 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS, 
2. A. pLaranor’pEes, DL. Juice milky ; leaves broadly heart-shaped, 5- 
lobe coarsely t toothed ; flowers somewhat corymbose ; fruit divaricate, 
oth. 
Plitsbiteetiit Acer. Norway Maple. 
large be when full grown. Leaves 4-6 inches in length and rather wider than long, 
deep shinin; green; ; petioles about as long as the leaves, when broken exuding a milky 
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flere ae Neot Burdpe: April. 
. This tree has been but. recently aie of xe it promises to 
become one of our most desirable shade t Its foliage is remarkably 
fine, and abundant, continuing green ie r than most other opiate 
and it is said that its n milky juice pr orenta. the ravages of insec 
tt Petals none. 
~ eee sacchari num, L. Leaves broad, subcordate at base, 3 - 5- 
lobed with the sinuses obtuse,—the lobes acuminate, coarsely and spar- 
ingly ee flowers apetalous, Be pow on long filiform, 
villous, fascicula: te pedicels ; fruit tur, urgid, smoo 
Staoon dni Acer. Sugar Maple. 
_ eet or more in height, and Fra 8 feet in diameter. Leaves 3-68 mches long, 
and generally ‘saiker wider than long. green above, paler beneath ; petioles 2-4 
inches long. Pim ab _ —— ello, Tuned a Anti rte ga — fringed — 
long hairs Fruit ovoid at base, abou inch 1 cluding the win, 
ws od caieme 
woodlands : Canada to Georgia. FI. April-May. Fr. Sept, 
Obs. This is one of the most valuable and interesting of our native 
trees,—particularly in the a of the North and West—where its 
sap, in early spring, yields an immense quantity of Sugar and addy i 
The beautiful bee Bag kno own we Bird’s-e s-eye Maple— —80 much admired 1 
The 
is highly valued as fuel, ranking near hickory ; it also furnishes a 
sarge of charcoal. 3 
** Flowers in short erect clusters, from lateral leafless buds, preceding the 
rt Pétals none. : 
car’pum, © Leaves palmately and deeply 5-lobed with 
4. A. dasycar 
the sinuses acute, the a unequally incised-dentate; ovary densely 
tomentose 
Harny-raurrep Acer. Silver-leaved eT White Maple. 
Stem 30 ~- 60 feet high, and 2 feet or more (‘‘ in the Wi States sometimes 8-9.”— 
kg haope er Singh eee crisis 
inc 5 white or us -5. 
long. fascicles oteaty of fives and sevens. Calyz pale truncate and. 
e 
-yellow, in loose terminal, somewhat pendulous corymbs. 
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