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often find a leaf larger, heavier, and coarser than any 
of the others. This variety, like the Norway, is an 
importation from Europe, known as the sycamore maple 
because of its resemblance to the sycamore leaf. It is 
easily identified by its large size, coarseness, the very 
long, thick red stem, and by the fact that its entire 
edge is finely toothed, —in 
which point it differs from 
all the foregoing varieties. 
Its value as a shade tree is 
nearly equal to the Norway, 
and in Europe it is often 
planted in preference to all 
other maples. 
38. The Striped Maple. 
Growing in the shade of 
other trees and forming part 
-of the undergrowth of: our 
North woods is a small tree 
known as the striped maple, Fic. 98. The Striped Maple, or 
from the stripes which run Soy 
up and down its bark. The New England name for this 
little mountain tree is moosewood, from the fact that 
the moose is very fond of the bark and twigs, which 
form his chief food in winter. The leaves are quite 
large, but very thin, soft, and delicate. 
