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MOOSE WOOD. 
entitles it to preference in the United States, over the Sugar Maple and the 
Black Sugar Tree. 
PLATE XLIV. 
Fig. 2; leaf of half the natural size. Ji seed of the natural size. 
[ Its growth is very rapid, particularly when it is in a deep, free, rich soil, 
and in a mild climate. It arrives at full growth in 50 or 60 years. In 
marshy soil, or dry sand, the tree never attains a great size. 
“ There is a very interesting tree of this species standing at the entrance 
of the village of Trons, in the Grisons, the cradle of liberty in the Rhœti- 
an Alps. Under the once spreading branches of this now hollow and cloven 
trunk, the Gray League, was solemnly ratified in 1424. Upon the supposi- 
tion that it was only a century old when the meeting, to which its celebrity 
is owing, took place, and a younger tree would hardly have been selected 
for the purpose, it has now attained the age of 520 years and may be much 
older.” Fr. Grey^ in N. American. Rev. July 1844.] 
MOOSE WOOD. 
Acer striatum. A,foliis infernè rotundatis, supernè acuminato-tricuspidi- 
bus, argute serratis : racemis simplicibus, pendentibus. 
A. Demisylvanicura. L. 
In the Province of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in the District of 
Maine, and in the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, this Maple is 
known only by the name of Moose Wood: in New Jersey and Pennsyl- 
vania, it is called Striped Maple. This last denomination, which is pre- 
ferable as being descriptive, I have thought proper to reject, because it is 
in use only in a part of the United States where the tree is rare, and is 
