G. 25) CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 85 
slender racemes or panicles, blooming in 
June. Wings of the small fruit at about 
aright angle. Small tree, 6 to 10 ft. high, 
or usually a shrub, with brown twigs. 
Native; growing in moist woods; rarely 
cultivated. 
2, Acer Pennsylvdnicum, L. (STRIPED 
Maple.) Leaves large, thin, 3-lobed at 
the end, cordate at base, finely and 
sharply doubly serrate. Flowers green- 
ish, in drooping, elongated, loose racemes 
appearing after the leaves in spring. A. spicatum. 
Fruit with large diverging wings. A 
small, slender tree, with light green bark 
striped with dark red. Wild throughout 
and cultivated. 
8. Acer dasycarpum, Ehrh. (SILveEr, 
Sort, on Waite Marie.) Leaves large, 
1 truncated at base, 6-lobed, with blunt 
a notches, the lobes irregularly serrated 
and notched, silvery white, and, when 
young, downy beneath. Flowers light 
yellowish-purple, preceding the leaves, 
in crowded umbels along the branches. 
Wings of fruit large and forming about a 
right angle; ripe earlyin June. Arather 
large, rapidly growing, and usually some- 
what weeping tree, with soft white wood. 
Special cut-leaved and weeping varie- 
ties are sold at the nurseries. Wild along 
river-banks, and extensively cultivated in 
the streets of cities. 
A. Pennsylvénicum. 
4. Acer rubrum, 
L. (RED MAPLE.) 
Leaves cordate at 
base and cleft into 
A. dasycaérpum. 
y, 3 to 5 acute-notched, irregularly toothed lobes, 
il whitish beneath, turning a bright crimson in 
early autumn. Flowers usually scarlet, rarely 
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yellowish, in close clusters along the branches, 
A. rdbrum appearing before the leaves in the spring. 
