. onymes. Acer saccharinum, LinnjEus, Species Plantarum. De Candolle, Prodromus. MicHAux, North Americaa Don, Millers Dictionary. Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum.^ ToRREY AND Grav, Flora of North America. France. Germany. Italy. Ojibway Indians. Erable a sucre, Zucker Ahorn, Acero zuccheroso, Acero del Canada, Ininawtig, Rock Maple, Hard Maple, Birds-eye Ma- | pie. Sugar Blaple, Sugar-tree, Black J Britain and Anglo-America. Sugar-tree, Sap-tree, ) Derivations. The specific name is derived from
. onymes. Acer saccharinum, LinnjEus, Species Plantarum. De Candolle, Prodromus. MicHAux, North Americaa Don, Millers Dictionary. Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum.^ ToRREY AND Grav, Flora of North America. France. Germany. Italy. Ojibway Indians. Erable a sucre, Zucker Ahorn, Acero zuccheroso, Acero del Canada, Ininawtig, Rock Maple, Hard Maple, Birds-eye Ma- | pie. Sugar Blaple, Sugar-tree, Black J Britain and Anglo-America. Sugar-tree, Sap-tree, ) Derivations. The specific name is derived from the Latin saccharum, sugar, having reference to the sugar contained in tliesap. Ensrnvings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 42; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, i., figure 122. pp. 446 et 44. elv., pi. 31; and the figures below. Specific Characters. Leaves cordate, smooth, glaucous beneath, palmately 5-lobed; lobes acuminated,serrately toothed. Corymbs drooping, on short peduncles. Pedicels pilose. Fruit smooth, with thewings diverging.—Don, 3IiUers Description. Si^PlHE Acer saccharinum is one of the most noble and majestic of Ameri-liS^s\rt)i^l can trees. In favoura-ble situations it sometimes grows to a heightof seventy or eighty feet, and from two to fourfeet in diameter; but usually it does not ex-ceed an elevation of fifty or sixty feet, and a \diameter of twelve or eighteen inches. The \xtrunk is generally straight, though often stud- N^ded with projections and excrescences. In allhealthful and vigorous trees, the outward barkis light-coloured, by which they may readilybe distinguished. When growing in open sit-uations, with room to spread on every side,where all its branches are exposed to the freeaction of light, this tree is an object of greatbeauty. It somewhat resembles the Englishoak, in its outline, in the form of its trunk, anddisposition of its branches, and in the dense and massy character of its leaves are from three to five inches broad;
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