vine-maple

The boughs of the vine-maple, together with other slender shrubs constituting the underbrush, had been rudely woven together, forming, at best, but a very inefficient shelter from the wind, which swept in freezing currents through the valley.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

Off the path, the underbrush was almost impassable; the vine-maple, with crooked stems and tangled branches, with coarse briers and vines, knit every thing together.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

Summer was upon the land, early summer, with the sweet winds stirring upon the waters, with gauze-winged creatures flitting above the, shallows where willow and vine-maple fringed the edges and silver fish leaped to their undoing, with fleecy clouds floating in a sapphire sky, and birds straining their little throats in the forest.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

Where the vine-maple fringed the deep forest with flame.

Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses John Douglas Sutherland Campbell 1879

"In a forest like this," he says, leaning close to my ear, "a drop of rain may hit 20 times before it reaches the ground, and each impact-against a cedar bough, a vine-maple leaf, a snag-makes its own sound."

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