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lobes to the leaves, which are more or less glaucous beneath ; 

 but this latter circumstance, like the degree of hairiness of the 

 stamens, is a variable character. 



2. A. campestre. Common Maple. 



Leaves five-lobed, obtuse, somewhat cut. Clusters corym- 

 bose, erect. 



A. campestre. Linn. Sp. PL 1497. WUId. Sp. PL v. 4. 989. FL Br. 

 422. EngL BoL v. 5. t.304. Hook. Scot 120. FL Dan. t. 1288. 



A. campestre et minus, Bauh. Pin. 431. Duham. Arb. v. I. 28. 

 t. 10./. 7. 



A. n. 1029, 6. HalL Hist v. 1. 443. 



A. minus. Raii Si/n.470. Ger. Em. 1484. f. Dod. Pempt. 840. f. 



Acer. Trag. Hist. 1123./. 



Massholder Tragi. Gesn. Fasc. 1 . \6. t. 9./. 19. 



/S. Acer campestre et minus, fructu rubente. yailL Par. 2. DHL 

 i?i Raii Syn. 470. 



In hedges and thickets common ; rare in Scotland, and the north 

 of England. 



Tree. May, June. 



A rather small tree, of much more humble growth than the preced- 

 ing, with more spreading branches ; the bark corky and full of 

 fissures j that of the branches smooth. Leaves about 1^ inch 

 wide, downy while young, like their footstalks, obtusely 5-lobed, 

 here and there notched, sometimes quite entire. Clusters ter- 

 minating the young shoots, hairy, erect, short and somewhat 

 corymbose. FL green, not unlike those of the preceding. Anth. 

 hairy between the lobes. Caps, downy, horizontally spreading 

 nearly in a right line, with smooth, oblong, reddish wings. 



The wood is compact, of a fine grain, sometimes beautifully veined, 

 celebrated among the ancient Romans for tables, though now 

 superseded by Mahogany, and even our native Oak. 



