. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. 238 Illinois Natikaj. Hlsi-oky Sirvky Bulletin titious hiuls have been huried, furnish the highly decorative '"birdseye" maple so greatly prized for small panels in beds, cabinets, and walls. Sugar Maple logs are easily split, and this, together with their hard- ness, makes them admirably suited for fuel purposes. The ashes, which were formerlv much used in the manufacture of soft soap, contain a con- siderable amount of phosphate and are valuable as lawn and orchard fer- tilizers. The wood ranks with beech for distillation purposes. The
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. 238 Illinois Natikaj. Hlsi-oky Sirvky Bulletin titious hiuls have been huried, furnish the highly decorative '"birdseye" maple so greatly prized for small panels in beds, cabinets, and walls. Sugar Maple logs are easily split, and this, together with their hard- ness, makes them admirably suited for fuel purposes. The ashes, which were formerlv much used in the manufacture of soft soap, contain a con- siderable amount of phosphate and are valuable as lawn and orchard fer- tilizers. The wood ranks with beech for distillation purposes. The maple sugar and the maple syrup of commerce are also obtained from this tree. ACER NIGRUM Michaux Black Maple The Black Alaple is a tree of somewhat more than medium height, with a shallow, flat-topped crown of stout, spreading branches. The thick, firm, dull-green leaves, usually 3-lobed, but occasionally 5-lobed, and yel- low-green and velvety-hairy beneath, are between 5 and 6 inches long and hang on stout, hairy petioles ;'> to 5 inches long, the enlarged bases of which nearly cover the buds. The yel- low flowers, which have 5 sepals but no petals, hang from slender, hairy stalks. 'i]/2 to 3 inches long, arranged in ter- minal fascicles. The keys, the wings of which usually spread widely, are between i/^ and 1 inch long and carry bright, red-brown seeds about ^ inch long. The orange-brown branchlets bear very hairy, pointed, dark red- brown buds set deep in the narrow leaf-scars. The thick and deeply fur- rowed bark covers a trunk which may attain a diameter of 2^^ to 3 feet, while the tree may rise to a height of ;0 or 80 feet. Distribution: Though always a rare and localized tree, the Black Maple ranges from Montreal west- ward to South Dakota and southward into New York, West Virginia, Ken- tucky and Missouri. In Illinois, as. Fig. 97. Distribution of tlie Black Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally e
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