. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY Slaiiiens.—Seven or eight in the staminate flowers, rudimentary in the pistillate. Hypogynous ; filaments short; anthers introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally. Pistil.—Rudimentary in staminate flowers. In pistillate flowers, ovary superior, purplish brown, downy, two-celled, compressed con- trary to the dissepiment, wing-margined ; style short ; stigmas two, recur\ed and spreading ; ovules two in eacli cell, one of which aborts. Fruit.—Two samaras united formi
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY Slaiiiens.—Seven or eight in the staminate flowers, rudimentary in the pistillate. Hypogynous ; filaments short; anthers introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally. Pistil.—Rudimentary in staminate flowers. In pistillate flowers, ovary superior, purplish brown, downy, two-celled, compressed con- trary to the dissepiment, wing-margined ; style short ; stigmas two, recur\ed and spreading ; ovules two in eacli cell, one of which aborts. Fruit.—Two samaras united forming a maple key. Borne in long drooping racemes, smooth, with thin spreading wings three-fourths to an inch long: on one side of each nutlet is a small cavity. Seeds dark reddish brown. September. Cotyledons thin, irregularly plicate. This maple is a mountain tree. It has no special economic value, but its beauty is its sufficient " excuse for ; The delicate and exquisite coloring of opening foliage is too often lost upon the heedless observer, unless something appears so striking that it cannot be ignored. l!ut in the spring- time this dryad of a tree, slender, deli- cate, clotlied in a misty rosy sheen of buds and opening leaves, compels every passer-l)y to admire its beauty. Later its yellow flowers hang in long, 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 IMoosevvood re- fers to the fact that the bark and branch- lets are the favorite food of the moose. Emerson says that in their " winter beats" this tree is always found completely stripped. Evidently the moose 62. Keys of Striped Maple, Acer 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 not perfectly resemble the original w
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