. Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state . mall tree 30°-40° with scaly, brown bark and reddishbranches. Leave J 3-lobed, the lobes Avith large coarse teeth,notches between the lobes broad and shallow. Flowers sim-ilar to Acer saccharum. Fruit a two winged, green samara,the ; spread ng or erect. Along mountain streams, ^Montana, Utah, Arizona, New]\Iexico, Texas and northern wood is hard and close grained. 4. Acer saccharinum L. Silver ^Maple. Soft Maple. Alarge forest tree 100° high with short trunk and large uprightbranches. B
. Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state . mall tree 30°-40° with scaly, brown bark and reddishbranches. Leave J 3-lobed, the lobes Avith large coarse teeth,notches between the lobes broad and shallow. Flowers sim-ilar to Acer saccharum. Fruit a two winged, green samara,the ; spread ng or erect. Along mountain streams, ^Montana, Utah, Arizona, New]\Iexico, Texas and northern wood is hard and close grained. 4. Acer saccharinum L. Silver ^Maple. Soft Maple. Alarge forest tree 100° high with short trunk and large uprightbranches. Bark on old stems scaly, brown; on young stemsand branches, smooth light gray. TAvigs reddish, curved up-ward at the end. Leaves deeply five lobed, the lobes sharppointed and toothed, smooth and dark green above, palesilvery and smooth below. Flowers greenish in the axils of 136 Bulletin of the Vniversity of Texas the leaves of the preceding year. Staminate and pistillateflowers in separate clusters. Fruit a greenish two wingedsamara ripening in late spring; w ings divergent. In wet. Fig. 43. Acer saccharinum. gronnd, New Brunswick, Ontario, South Dakota, Florida,Oklahoma and Texas. Many cultivated varieties with finelycut leaves are planted for ornament. A very quick growingtree extensively cultivated. 5. Acer rubrum L. Red Maple. A large forest tree withupright branches. Bark on young stems gray, smooth, be-coming brown and shaggy on older stems. Twigs reddishbrown. Leaves 3-5 lobed, the middle lobe longer than the othersand tapering toward the broad base, serrate margined,notches wide obtuse angled, medium green and smooth above,paler and somewhat hairy beneath. Flowers scarlet or yel-lowish, in clusters in tlie axils of leaves of the preceding year. The Trees of Texas 137 Staminate and pistillate in separate clusters. Fruit on longdrooping pedicels, ripening in the spring. AVings divergentat maturity. Most abundant on low wet ground, but sometimes found
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