THE MAPLES. 



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Striped Uaple. 



Acer Pennsylvatiicum. 



of the red maple, and in the fall by the seeds whose 

 brownish wings diverge at fully a right angle. 



The striped maple can be distin- 

 guished at once (especially in win- 

 ter) by its vertically striped bark, 

 and large, three-pointed, goose-foot-shaped; leaves, 

 which measure five or six inches in length. 

 The bark is smooth, greenish, and is striped 

 with a sort of rust color sometimes quite 

 dark. The leaves are very finely and 

 sharply double-toothed. Its flow- 

 ers are greenish, and appear in 

 May or June. The seeds have 

 large, divergent, pale-green wings, 

 and depend in long, graceful clus- 

 ters. 



The tree is small and slender, nev- 

 er reaching a height of over 35 or 

 40 feet ; it is common throughout the 

 North, but is merely a shrub 15 feet high, beside 

 the shaded roads which pass through the "White 

 Mountain district of New Hampshire ; it reaches 

 its greatest height in the Big Smoky Mountains in 

 Tennessee, and extends no farther south than north- 

 ern Georgia. I might call attention to this maple 

 as having a leaf distinctly wnlihe those of its rela- 

 tives ; it is so large, thin, and delicately if not softly 



striped Maple. 



