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CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 



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slender racemes or panicles, blooming in 

 June. Wings of the small fruit at about 

 a right angle . Small tree, 6 to 10 ft. high, 

 or usually a shrub, with brown twigs. 

 Native ; growing in moist woods ; rarely 

 cultivated. 



2. AcerPennsylv&nicum,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. 



\ Fruit with large diverging wings. A 



small, slender tree, with light green bark 

 striped with dark red. Wild throughout 

 and cultivated. 



A. Pennsylvfinioum. 



3. Acer dasyc&rpum, Ehrh. (SILVER 

 OK WHITE MAPLE.) Leaves large, trun- 

 cated at ' base, 5-lobed, with blunt 

 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 early in June. A rather 

 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. 



4. Acer rubrum, 

 L. (RED MAPLE.) 

 Leaves cordate at 

 base and cleft into 

 3 to 5 acute-notched, irregularly toothed lobes, 

 whitish beneath, turning a bright crimson in 

 early autumn. Flowers usually scarlet, rarely 

 yellowish, in close clusters along the branches, 

 appearing before the leaves in the spring. 



A. dasycarpum. 



