. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. MAPLE FAMILY S/<n„e„s-Seven or eight in the staminate flowers, rudimentary n the pistillate. Hypogynous; filaments short; anthers intrors? two-celled; cells opening longitudinally. iuuuise. /^/.y/Z/.-RiKliinentary in stanunate (lowers. In jiistillate flowers ovary , purplish brown, downy, two-celled, compressed con rary to the disscpiinent, wing-margined ; style short ; tignia two recurved and spreading ; ovules two in each cell, one of uhid. aborts' ^;;
. Our native trees and how to identify them [microform] : a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees; Arbres. MAPLE FAMILY S/<n„e„s-Seven or eight in the staminate flowers, rudimentary n the pistillate. Hypogynous; filaments short; anthers intrors? two-celled; cells opening longitudinally. iuuuise. /^/.y/Z/.-RiKliinentary in stanunate (lowers. In jiistillate flowers ovary , purplish brown, downy, two-celled, compressed con rary to the disscpiinent, wing-margined ; style short ; tignia two recurved and spreading ; ovules two in each cell, one of uhid. aborts' ^;;,,A- I wo samaras united forming a maple key. Borne in drooping racemes, smooth, with thin spreading wings three-founl s o an inch long ; on one side of each nutlet is a sniall cavitv. Seeds hik reddish brown. Septend^er. Cotyledons thin, irregularly plicate. This nuipic is a mountain tree. It has no special ecoiioniic value, but Its beauty is its sufficient "excuse for being " 'I'lie delicate and exquisite colorino; of oi)enino- foliaoe is too often lost upon tiie heecriess observer, unless something appears so striking that it cannot be ignored. lUit in the spring- time this dryad of a tree, slender, deli, cate, clothed in a misty rosy sheen of budsand opening leaves, compels every passer-by to admire its beauty. Later its yellow llowershangin , graceful, droop- ing racemes and are succeeded by large showy keys with pale green, divergent wings. Its leaves are the largest of all our maples. The New England name Moosewood re- fers to the fact that the bark and branch, lets are the favorite food of the Keys of Striped , Acrr peninyh aiucuiii. Emerson says that i-i their " winter beats" tliis tree is always found completely stripped. Evidently the moose 6a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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