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lor); Dearborn (Collins); Delaware (Phinney); Delaware, Jay, Ran- 
dolph and Wayne (Phinney); Decatur (Ballard); Fountain (Brown); 
Franklin (Haymond) and (Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Hamil- 
ton (Wilson); Jay (M’Caslin); Jefferson (Barnes), (Coulter) and 
(Young); Knox (Ridgway), (Spillman) and (Thomas); Kosciusko 
(Clark), (Coulter) and (Youse); Marion (Wilson); Miami (Gorby); 
Monroe (Blatchley); Noble (Van Gorder); Parke (Hobbs); Posey 
(Schneck); Putnam (MacDougal); Shelby (Ballard); Steuben (Brad- 
ner); Tippecanoe (Cunningham); Vigo (Blatchley); Wabash (Bene- 
dict and Elrod). 
Additional records are: Putnam (Grimes); Tippecanoe (Coul- 
ter); Posey and Wells (Deam). 
Economic uses. Wood hard, close-grained, strong, brittle, pale 
brown. Uses same as those of the red maple. Lumber dealers 
put the red and silver maple into one class and designate them as 
soft maple. On drying the soft maples do not warp as much as 
the hard maple. 
Horticultural value. Same as the preceding. 
4, Acer saccharum Marshall. SuGar Marin. SucGar TREE. 
Harp Marie. Rock Marie. Plate 112. Bark of young trees and 
branches light brown, smooth or rough, becoming on old trees a 
gray or dark brown, fissured, tardily separating into rather thick 
scales, which turn up at the side; twigs reddish or gray, mostly 
glossy, ridge of leaf scars slightly pubescent; leaves more or less 
cordate at the base, usually 3-lobed, sometimes 5-lobed, 6-12 em. 
(214-434 inches) long, hairy beneath when young, becoming smooth 
at maturity, rarely remaining pubescent, dark green above, whitish 
beneath; flowering period April, May or June, flowers on pedicels 
4-6 em. (114-2! inches) long which are usually hairy, the staminate 
and pistillate in separate clusters on the same or on different trees, 
rarely both kinds of flowers in the same cluster, the staminate 
usually on undeveloped naked branches with leaves at the base, 
greenish yellow; fruit ripens late in the summer or early autumn, 
glabrous, 2-3 em. (34-114 inches) long, wings diverging. 
Distribution. Newfoundland south to Georgia and west to Mani- 
toba, Nebraska and Texas. Frequent to common in all parts of 
Indiana in rich and well drained uplands. It is usually associated 
with the beech and black maple. 
The published records of the distribution are as follows: Clark 
(Baird and Taylor) and (Smith); Dearborn (Collins); Delaware 
(Phinney); Delaware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne (Phinney); Fount- 
