sjENziEsiA. OCTANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. 395 



• pubescent; margin with minute cartilaginous teeth. Pedun- 

 cles erect, red, an inch or more in Ieni>th, i<landular. Flowers 

 large, purple. Calyx S-parted ; segments lanceolate, rather 

 obtuse. Corolla urceolate ; border 5-toothed. Stamens in- 

 cluded. Style persistent, a little curved ; stii^ma somewhat 

 5-lobed. 

 Hab. On'the White Hills of New-Hampshire. July. Peck 

 and Big e low. 



This is also a native of the northern parts and high moun- 

 tains of Europe. I have a specimen from Greenland, in every 

 respect resembling one from New-Hampshire, sent to me by 

 Dr. Big e low. 



2. M. glohularis S alish. : leaves lanceolate, glaucous 

 Tiieneath, except the nerves, pubescent ; calyx 4-cleft ; flowers 

 globose, octandrous. Sa I i s b. m Parad. Land. 44. P ur s h 

 Fl. I. p. 264. Muhl. Cat, p. 40. Elliott Sk. \. p. 

 447. M. ferruginea 13. Bot, Mag. 1571. M. Smxthii M i c h. 

 Ft, 1. p. 235. M. pitosa P ers, Sjti, I. p. 420.^ AzaleA 

 pilosa Lam. III. p. 494. 



, Not above 4 feet high. Flowers yellowish-brown. PJi. 

 JI^B. In Pennsylvania. June. Muhlenberg. 

 This species I have never seen. 



272. ACER. L. 



Flowers mostly polygamous. Cali/x 5-cleft. P^^ 

 tals 5 or 0. Samara 2, winged, united at the base, by 

 abortion 1-seeded. Gen.pL 1590. Nutt. Gen. I. 

 252. Ju s s. p. 251. Lam. IlL t. 844. Nat. Ord. 

 AcERACE^ Jiiss. Maple, 



1 . A. ruhrum L. : leaves palmately about 5-lobed, cor- 

 date at the base, unequally and incisely toothed, glaucous be- 

 beneath ; the sinuses acute ; flowers aggregated in about 

 flves, on rather long pedicels ; germens glabrous. W illd. 

 Spec. IV. po 934. M i c h. FL II. p. 253. Mich. fil. Arh, 

 II. p. 210. t, 14. ^ Mrs A F/. I. p. 265. Big.Bost.p. 

 247. Elliott Sk. I. p. 449. Mutt. Gen. I. p. 252. 

 Catesb, Car. I. t. 62. P I u Ic. Aim. 7. t. 2. f. 4. 



A large tree, with smooth clouded bark ; wood close grained, 

 hard. Leaves opposite, on long petioles, with about 5 acute 

 lobes spreading in a palmate manner, when young pubescent 

 beneath, but at length smooth and glaucous, except on the 

 nerves. Flowers appearing before the leaves, mostly in sessile 

 umbels or fascicles of about 5, surrounded by a gemmaceous 

 mvolucrum. Perfect: Pediceli lengthening as the fruit 



