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ware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne (Phinney); Fountain (Brown); 
Franklin (Haymond) and (Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Hamil- 
ton (Wilson); Jay (M’Caslin); Jefferson (Barnes), (Coulter) and 
(Young); Knox (Ridgway) and (Thomas); Kosciusko (Scott); 
Marion (Wilson); Miami (Gorby); Monroe (Blatchley); vicinity of 
New Albany (Clapp); Noble (Van Gorder); Parke (Hobbs); Posey 
(Schneck); Putnam (MacDougal); Steuben (Bradner); Tippecanoe 
(Cunningham); Vigo (Blatchley); Wabash (Benedict and Elrod). 
Additional records are: Montgomery (Evans); Putnam (Grimes); 
Tippecanoe (Coulter); Allen, Clark, Porter, Posey, Putnam, Scott, 
Steuben and Wells (Deam). 
Economic uses. Wood heavy, light or reddish-brown, not strong, 
close-grained. Used for frame lumber, furniture, staves and head- 
ing. 
Horticultural value. Adapted to a moist rich soil, grows rap- 
idly, transplants easily, crown oval, when crowded the branches 
grow long and are easily broken off, leaf period long. It is fre- 
quently used for ornamental shade purposes. The use of the red 
and silver maple has been discouraged by the appearance of the 
maple borer, cottony maple scale and tussock moth. The soft 
maples are more frequently attacked by the borers than the hard 
maples. 
3. Acer saccharinum Linneus. Sorr Marie. Sitver Mapie. 
WuitE Mapie. Plate 111. Bark of young trees and branches 
smooth and gray, becoming on older trunks reddish-brown, freely 
splitting into thin scales; twigs brownish to red, turning up at the 
end; leaves truncate or somewhat heart-shaped at the base, deeply 
5-lobed, the middle lobe frequently 3-lobed, the lobes pointed and 
sharply toothed, 6-14 em. (21%4-51% inches) long, hairy beneath 
when young, smooth on both surfaces at maturity, medium green 
above, whitish beneath, petioles long; flowering period March or 
April; flowers greenish, in clusters in the axils of the leaves of the 
previous year, the staminate and pistillate in separate clusters on 
the same or different trees; fruit matures in late spring, green, 
smooth and more or less divergent at maturity, 4-7 em. (114-234 
inches) long. 
Distribution. New Brunswick, southern Ontario, South Dakota 
to Florida. Rare on the Atlantic coast. Frequent to common in 
all parts of Indiana in wet ground. Grows in situations similar 
to that of the red maple. 
The published records of the distribution are as follows: Car- 
rol (Thompson); Cass (Benedict and Elrod); Clark (Baird and Tay- 
