Acer campestrey 



Acer cainpestre, 

 THE FIELD MAPLE. 



Synonymes. 



[ LiNNJEUs, Species Plantarum. 

 De Candoi.i.e, Proilroinus. 

 Don, I\Iillcr's Dictionary. 

 Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 

 Selby, British Forest Trees. 

 Erable champetre, France. 



Kleiner Ahorn. Feld Ahom, Germans. 



Galliizzi, (when small,) Loppo, Pioppo, 1 



Chiopjw, Stucchio, Festucchio, Fisluc- J Italy. 

 chio. Albero da vita, ) 



Field Maple, Britain and Anglo-America. 



Dfriralions. The specific name, campfstre, \a derived from the Latin campus, a field, havin? reference to this tree as 

 growiui.' aU>ut hedges and open fields. The French, German, and English names have the same signification. 



Engrarings. Selby, British Forest Trees, p. 27; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, i., figure 132, p. 458, et. v. pi. 43 j and 

 the figures below. 



Specific Characters. Leaves cordate, w-ith 5-toothed lobes. Racemes erect. Wings of fruit much divari- 

 cated. Don, Miller's Diet. 



Description. 



y^'^HE Field Maple, 



^ h H [^ when cultivated 



^ U ^ under favoura- 



i ble circumstan- 



tree of the second or 



ces. forms 



third order, with a handsome outline, 

 and picturesque appearance. In its 

 natural habitat, it seldom exceeds the 

 height of twenty feet, although in a 

 state of cultivation, it often attains 

 nore than double that elevation. 



Varieties. In the Acer campestre, 

 we recognize six forms or varieties, 

 which may be described as follows : 



1. A. c. HEBECARPUM, Loudou. Downy-fruitcd Field Maple. This variety is 

 the form usually regarded by British authors as the type of this species, and is 

 characterized as rather a small tree, with spreading branches ; the bark corky, 

 and full of fissures ; that of the branches smooth. The leaves about one and a 

 half inches broad, downy while young, as are their footstalks, obtusely five- 

 lobed, irregularly notched, and sometimes quite entire. The flowers grow in 

 clusters, which terminate the young shoots : they are hairy, erect, short, some- 

 what corymbose, and of a green colour. The anthers are hairy between the 

 lobes. The capsules downy, spreading horizontally, with smooth, oblong, red- 

 dish wings. 



2. A. c. FOLiis VARiEGATis, Loudon. Varico'ated-haved Field Maple. This 

 variety is considered as the handsomest of all the variegated-leaved maples. 



