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43810 to 43925— Continued. 



43810. Acer cissiFOLixJM (Sieb. and Zucc.) Koch. Aceracese. Maple. 



A deciduous Japanese maple of compact, rounded habit, becoming 30 

 feet or more high, with leaves composed of three leaflets up to 34 inches 

 in length. The minute flowers are produced in May with the leaves, 

 and the keys, which are about an inch long, occur in long racemes. In 

 autumn the foliage turns red and yellow. (Adapted from Bean, Trees 

 and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, pp. 137, 138.) 



43811. Acer miyabei Maxim. Aceracese. Maple. 

 A deciduous Japanese maple growing from 30 to 40 feet high, with a 



trunk up to l^ feet in diameter and deeply 8-lobed leaves. The flowers 

 are yellow and downy, appearing in corymbs 2 to 3 inches long, and the 

 keys are up to an iuch in length. (Adapted from Bean, Trees and Shrubs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. UfS.) 



43812. Acer rufinerve Sieb. and Zucc. Aceracese. Maple. 

 A small, deciduous Japanese maple, with smooth, bluish white, young 



shoots and dark-green, irregularly serrate, 8-lobed or obscurely 5-lobed 

 leaves. The flowers occur in erect racemes about 3 inches long, and the 

 keys are up to three-fourths of an inch long. Occasionally the young 

 foliage, the leafstalks, and the midribs are red. (Adapted IvonY Bean, 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, pp. 157, 158.) 



43813. Acer tetramerum Pax. Aeeracese. Maple. 



A tree from central and western China, with oval or oblong leaves from 

 2 to 31 inches long and staminate flowers in few-flowered sessile racemes. 

 The keys are slender stalked and the nutlets are thick and strongly 

 veined. It is graceful, hardy, and variable, and reaches a height of 25 

 feet. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 1, 

 p. 202.) 



43814. Amygdalus nana L. Amygdalacese. Russian almond. 

 {Prunus nana Stokes.) 



A bush from Russia and western Asia, growing to a height of 3 to 

 5 feet, with thick, rather stiff, sharply serrate, lance-shaped leaves. 

 The pinkish or white flowers are usually solitary and about an inch 

 wide, and the small, hard fruit is hairy and bitter and contains a large, 

 wrinkled, sharp-pointed pit. In Europe this bush is cultivated for its 

 flowers. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, 

 vol. 5, p. 2832.) 

 43815 and 43816. Amygdalus persica L. Amygdalacese. 



{Primus persica Stokes.) Flowering peach. 



43815. A double, pale pink-flowered ornamental variety of the com- 

 mon peach. 



43816. A double, red-flowered variety. 



43817. Berberis aggregata C. Schneid. Berberidacese. Barberry. 



(Wilson No. 1050. From thickets in the Min Valley, western Szechwan, 

 at altitudes of 1,300 to 2,300 meters. October, 1908.) 



A shrub from western China, 3 to 5 feet high, with yellowish brown 

 spines in clusters of threes, rather small oval-oblong leaves with a few 



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