. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Silver Maple 645 The samaras are smooth, 2 to 3 cm. long, the erect or more or less divergent wings 8 to 13 mm. wide. / 8. SILVER MAPLE—Acer saccharinum Linnaeus Acer dasycarpum Ehrhart Preferring sandy river-banks, the Silver maple, or Soft maple as it is often called, ranges from New Brunswick to southern Ontario and South Dakota, south- ward to Florida, Missouri, and the Indian Territory, attaining a maximum height of
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Silver Maple 645 The samaras are smooth, 2 to 3 cm. long, the erect or more or less divergent wings 8 to 13 mm. wide. / 8. SILVER MAPLE—Acer saccharinum Linnaeus Acer dasycarpum Ehrhart Preferring sandy river-banks, the Silver maple, or Soft maple as it is often called, ranges from New Brunswick to southern Ontario and South Dakota, south- ward to Florida, Missouri, and the Indian Territory, attaining a maximum height of about 40 meters and a trunk diameter of about meters. It is also known as River maple, Water maple. White maple and Creek maple. The brown bark of old trunks splits freely into thin scales, that of the limbs and young trunks is smooth and gray; the young twigs are green and smooth, but early become brown. The leaf-stalks are long and slender, the leaf- blades nearly orbicular in outline, bright green on the upper side, nearly white and often silvery beneath, hairy on the under side when young, but both surfaces smooth at maturity; they are 5-lobed to beyond the middle, the lobes pointed, coarsely and sharply toothed, or again lobed. The flowers appear in earUest spring in dense clusters much ahead of the leaves, the sterile and ^'°- S9S- - Silver Maple, fertile ones in separate clusters, sometimes both on the same tree, sometimes on different trees; they are greenish yellow or reddish; there are no petals; the calyx has 5 short teeth and in the sterile flowers is nearly tubular with the stamens pro- jecting far beyond it, but in the fertile flowers it is cup-shaped and not longer than the stamens, ^he ovary being densely hairy. The young samaras are hairy, but soon become smooth and more or less divergent; when ripe they are 5 to 7 cm. long with a wing mm. wide or less. The Silver maple is one of the most rapid-growing trees, and is used in large quantities for stree
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