OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Acer. '231 



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

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

 stanums, is a variable character. 



2. A. campcstre. Common Maple. 



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

 bose, erect. 



A. campestre. Linn. Sp. PL 1-197. mild. Sp. PL v. 4. 989. Fl. Br. 

 422. Engl. Bot.v. 5. t. 304. Hook. Scot. 120. Fl. Dan. t. 1288. 



A. campestre et minus. Bank. Pin. 431. Duham. Arb. v. 1. 28. 

 t. 10. f. 7. 



A. n. 1029, 6. Hall. Utst. v. 1. 443. 



A. minus. Raii S/jn. 470. Gcr. Em. 1484./. Dod. Pempt. S40.f. 



Acer. Trag.Ilist. 1123./. 



Massholder Tragi. Gasn. Ease. 1.16.^. 9./. 19. 



/S. Acer campestre et minus, fructu rubente. Vaill. Par. 2. Dill, in 

 Rail Syn. 470. 



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

 of England. 



Tree. Mai/, 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/oo/6^«//iS, obtusely ."i-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. Antli. 

 hairy between the lobes. Caps, downy, horizontally spreading 

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



The wood is compact, of aline grain, sometimes l)eautifully veined, 

 celebrated among the ancient Romans for laldes, though now 

 superseded by Mahogany, and even our native Oak. 



