. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. te Douglass, on Horticul- High Clere, owered, and lisseminated , Avhite, and the slender ops of their nd the con- i culture of >f the Acer Acer eriocarpum, THE COTTON-FRUITED MAPLE. Synonymes. Acer eriocarpum, Acer dasycarpum, Erable a fruits cotonneux, Erable blanc, Rauher Ahorn, Acero cotoa
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. te Douglass, on Horticul- High Clere, owered, and lisseminated , Avhite, and the slender ops of their nd the con- i culture of >f the Acer Acer eriocarpum, THE COTTON-FRUITED MAPLE. Synonymes. Acer eriocarpum, Acer dasycarpum, Erable a fruits cotonneux, Erable blanc, Rauher Ahorn, Acero cotoaoso, Acero bianco, Acero spugnoso, Acero di Virginia, Sir Charles Wagner's Maple, Silver Maple, Silver-leaved Maple, White Maple, Soft Maple, MicHAux, North American Sylva. Don, Bliller's Dictionary. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. WiLLDENow, Linnsei Species Plantarum. ToRREv AND Gray, Flora of North America. France. Germany. Italy. Britain. New York. Other parts of Derivations. The specific name, eriocarpum, is derived from the Greek, erion, cntton, and carpos. fruit, in allusion to llie Uown which growa on the fruit. The name dasycarpum, is also from the Greek, and signifies woolly-fruiled. ''""^'°" '° ^"^ pl.^"'^7ndX'li'MMSvv'^°"'' ^'"''"'^''" ^^''"'" P'- ^°> LouJon, Arboretum Britannicum, i,, figure 129; p. 456, et v., Specific Characters. Leaves truncate at the base, smooth and glaucous beneath, palmately 5-lobed, with blunt recesses, and unequally and deeply-toothed lobes. Flowers conglomerate, on short pedicels, apetalous, pentandrous. Ovaries downy.—Do7(, Miller's Diet. ^ ' Description. I HE Acer eriocarpum, in favourable situations, attains a height of thir- ty to fifty feet, with a trunk from two to four feet in diameter; but on the banks of some of the western rivers, trees may be found of a diameter of eight or nine feet. The trunk is low, and divides itself into a great number of branche
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