. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY Stii//it-;is.—Seven or eight in the staminate flowers, rudimentary in the pistillate. Hypogynous; filaments short; anthers introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally. Pislil.—Rudimentary in staminate flowers. In pistillate flowers, ovarv superior, purplish broun, downy, two-celled, compressed con- trary to the dissepiment, wing-margined ; style short ; stigmas two, recur\ ed and spreading ; ovules two m each cell, one ot which aborts. F>-uit.—T«o samaras united
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. MAPLE FAMILY Stii//it-;is.—Seven or eight in the staminate flowers, rudimentary in the pistillate. Hypogynous; filaments short; anthers introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally. Pislil.—Rudimentary in staminate flowers. In pistillate flowers, ovarv superior, purplish broun, downy, two-celled, compressed con- trary to the dissepiment, wing-margined ; style short ; stigmas two, recur\ ed and spreading ; ovules two m each cell, one ot which aborts. F>-uit.—T«o samaras united lorming a maple key. Borne in long drooping racemes, smooth, with thin spreading uings three-fourths to an inch long : on one side of each nutlet is a small ca\ity. Seeds dark reddish brown. Sepleniber. Cotyledons thin, irregularly plicate. This maple is a niouiuain tree. It has no special economic value, but its beauty is its sufficient " excuse for ; Tlie delicate and exquisite coloring" of opening foliage is too often lost the heedless observer, unless something appears so striking that it cannot be igmired. lUit in the spring- time this drvad of a tree, slender, deli- cate, clothed in a mist}' rosy sheen of butlsand opening leaves, compels every passei'-by to admire its beaut}'. 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 Moosewood re- fers to the fact that tile bark and branch- lets are the favorite Keys of Striped Maple, Acer peint^vh'antcitm. , ^ i food of the moose. Emerson savs that in their " winter beats" this tree is always found completely stripped. Evidently the moose 62. 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
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