Handbook of Trees of the ISToetheen States and Canada. 331 



The Striped Maple, although a larger tree 

 than the Mountain Maple, with which it is 

 fienerally associated, only occasionally attains 

 the height of 30 or 40 ft. with a trunk 8 or 10 

 in. in thickness, and is often a large shrub. 

 This also is a sliade-loving tree, being found 

 scattered through forests of the Sugar Maple, 

 Yellow Birch. Beech. Hemlock. Eed Spruce. 

 Butternut, etc., but is occasionally found iso- 

 luted. having then a rather wide or rounded 

 top of upright and spreading branches. Its 

 handsome large leaves and gracefully drooping 

 stems of yellow flowers, borne on smooth 

 striped branches of rare coloration, overhang 

 the waters of nearly every forest-covered 

 mountain stream within its range, and in 

 northern regions are eagerly devoured by 

 moose and deer, for wliich reason it is some- 

 times called the Moosc-icood. 



Its wood is of a rich pinkish brown color 

 ■with abundant lighter sap-wood usually dotted 

 and streaked with pith-flecks. A cubic foot 

 when dry weighs 32,02 Ibs.i 



Leavcx palniately ."-lobed at apex with short 

 acuminate lobes, sharply doubly serrate, cordati> 

 or rounded at base, pubescent at first but finally 

 Klabrous, yellowish green above, paler beneath, 

 thin, prominently veined turning pale yellow in 

 autumn : petioles stout. Floncix. in late spring 

 when thi< leaves are nearly full grown, bright 

 yellow, about V. in. across in slender drooping 

 i-acemes 4-0 in. long ; sepals shorter and narrower 

 than the obovate petals : stamens 7-.S, shortor 

 than the petals; ovary glabrous; styles columnar 

 and stigmas recurved. Fruit drooping, glabrous, 

 widely divergent, wings about % in. long, the 

 seed bearing portion pitted one side ; seed abont 

 ^4 In. long. 



1. A. \y., IV, Tn. 



