Acer pscud(t-}>l(it)tu iis, 

 THE EUROPEAN SYCAMORE-TREE. 



Si/nony}ncs. 



Acer jiseudo-platatius, 



Enable blanc de montagne, Faussc pla 

 lane, Grand erable, Erable sycomore, 



Ehrcnbauin, Weisscr Ahorn, Genieiner 

 Ahorn, 



Acero fico, Acero sicomoro, Plalano falso, 

 Platanu salvatico, 



Great Maple, Mock Plane-tree, 



Plane-tree, 



European Sycamore, 



f Ltnn;f.cs, Species Plantarum. 

 I MiciiAi'x, >'urlli American Sylva. 

 ^ Don, I\Iiller's Dictionary. 



Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 



Sei.by, British Forest Trees. 



France. 



Gf.r.vany. 



Italy. 



England. 

 Scotland. 

 United States. 



Deri rations. The botanic name, pseudo-platanus, is derived from the Latin, and signifies false plane-tree. The other nam 

 are generally sigiiiticant In themselves. 



Engratitigs. Michaux, North .\merican Sylva, pi. 4-1; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, v., pi. 32; Selby, British Foresl 

 Trees, pp. 14, 15 el 21 ; and ihe figures below. 



Specific Characters. Leaves cordate, smooth, with 5 acuminated, unequally toothed lobes. Racemes pen 

 dulous, rather compound, with the rachis, as well as the filaments of stamens, hairy. Fruit smooth, 

 with the wings rather diverging. Don, Miller's Diet. 



Desc?'iptio?i. 



" Nor unnoticed pass 

 The sycamore, capritious in attire ; 

 Now ?reen, now lawny ; and ere autumn yet 

 Has changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright." 



COWPER. 



^^HE Great Maple 

 Sycamore, vying 



or 



h H 1^ Sycamore, vying in 



!J_ 'H point of magnitude, 



^^@ witli the oak, the ash, 



and otiier trees of the first rank, presents a 

 grand, unbroken mass of fohage. It forms a 

 beautiful contrast in appropriate situations, and 

 when judiciously grouped with trees of a hghter 

 and more airy character, it aff"ords an " impene- 

 trable shade." In favourable situations, it at- 

 tains a height of seventy to one hundred feet, 

 and from three to six feet in diameter ; but ordi- 

 narily, it grows only to one half of these dimen- 

 sions. It is a tree of quick growth, with a 

 smooth, ash-gray bark, and round, spreading 

 branches. The bark of old trees, in peeling off, 

 frequently leaves patches on their trunks of vari- 

 ous hues, in a similar manner as that of the 

 platanus. The leaves on long foot-stalks are four or five inches broad, pal- 

 mate, with five acute, variously serrated lobes; the middle one largest, pale, or 

 glaucous beneath. The flowers, which appear in May 'and June, are green, 

 about the size of a currant-blos.som. and disposed into axillary, pendulous, com- 



