. Synonynies. (LiNXius, Species De Caxdolle, { MicHAUx, North American LouDox, Arboretum Britannicum.[ ToRKEY AND Gray, Flora of North America. France. Germany. Britain. Western States. Other parts of tee United States. Erable rouge, Piother Ahorn, Scarlet-flowered 3Iaple, Maple, Red Maple, Soft ^laple. Swamp 3Iaple, Derivations. The specific name, rubriim. is derived from the Latin ruber, red, having reference to the colour of the flowers, fruit, young shoots of this tree. The other names have c
. Synonynies. (LiNXius, Species De Caxdolle, { MicHAUx, North American LouDox, Arboretum Britannicum.[ ToRKEY AND Gray, Flora of North America. France. Germany. Britain. Western States. Other parts of tee United States. Erable rouge, Piother Ahorn, Scarlet-flowered 3Iaple, Maple, Red Maple, Soft ^laple. Swamp 3Iaple, Derivations. The specific name, rubriim. is derived from the Latin ruber, red, having reference to the colour of the flowers, fruit, young shoots of this tree. The other names have chiefly the same signification as the botanical one. Engravings. Michaiix, North American Sylva, pi. 41: Audubon, Birds of America, pi. liv. el Ixvii.; Loudon, ArboretumBritannicum, i., figure 130; p. 457, el v., pi. 39; and the figures below. Specific Characters. Leaves cordate at the base, glaucous beneath, deeply and unequally toothed, , with acute recesses. Flowers conglomerate, 5-petaled, pentaadrous. Ovaries smooth.—Don,Millers Description. :HE Acer rubrum, whether in flower or m fohage, hke its congeners, is aii^S^ beautiful tree. Althoughit neither attains the size nor the height of thesugar maple, it much resembles that tree in itsgeneral appearance ; but it may be easily distin- ^,^guished from it by its trunk, which, when young,is more profusely marked with broad, pale-yellowlichens. In open situations, it often ramifies atthe ground, and assumes the form of severalsmall trees, growing in a clump. The bark, insuch situations, is usually of a darker colour, andsmoother, when young, than it is on trees grow-ing in shady woods. When the tree is old, how-ever, the epidermis of the trunk, like that of theliquidambar, and white oak, becomes brown,chapped, and deeply furrowed. The ordinarylieight of this species does not exceed fifty orsixty feet: but in favourable situations, as in the maple suximps in New Jerseyand Permsylvania, it often attains
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