80 ACERACEZ. (MAPLE FAMILY.) : 
petals as long as the tubular calyx; panicle oblong ; leaflets 5, varying from 
lanceolate to oval, short-acuminate, finely serrate, smooth, or nearly so, on both 
surfaces — Rich soil, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. March - May. 
— A shrub, or in the upper districts, a small tree. Flowers red. 
3. Æ. flava, Ait. Stamens included; claws of the lateral petals longer 
than the tubular-campanulate calyx ; panicle oblong, pubescent ; leaflets 5-7, 
obovate-oblong, acuminate, finely serrate, pubescent beneath. — Rich soil, in the 
middle and upper districts of Georgia to North Carolina and northward. April 
and May. — A shrub or small tree, Flowers pale yellow. Æ. discolor, Pursh, 
is a form of this species with more strongly serrate leaflets, and flesh-colored 
or dull purple flowers. 
4. Æ. parviflora, Walt. Stamens 3 times as long as the corolla; claws 
of thé nearly similar petals longer than the obconical calyx ; panicle racemose, 
very long; leaflets 5-7, oval-obovate, tomentose beneath. (Æ. macrostachya, 
Michx.) — Upper districts of Georgia and South Carolina. ake and May. — 
Shrub 3°-9° high. Flowers white. Stamens 6 or 7. 
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ORDER 43. ACERACEUE. (Marre Fauny.) 
Trees or shrubs, with opposite palmately lobed or pinnate exstipulate 
leaves, and regular mostly polygamous or dicecious flowers, with an imbri- 
cated sstivation. — Calyx 4—9-lobed. Petals as many as the lobes of the 
calyx, or none. Stamens 4—12, inserted with the petals into a hypogy- 
nous disk. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 pendulous amphitropous ovules in each 
cell, forming in fruit a double 2-seeded samara. Styles 2. Seeds with 
little or no albumen. Embryo folded or spirally et 
1l ACER, L Min. 
Flowers Poiria Petals usually 5-8, or none. Stamens 4-12. po M 
simple, palmately lobed. Flowers clustered or racemose. 
* Flowers in terminal racemes, appearing after the leaves. 
1. A. Pennsylvanicum, L. (Strirep Mare.) Racemes simple, 
drooping ; flowers (15 — 25) large ; petals obovate ; leaves slightly cordate, with 
3 acuminate finely serrate lobes ; samara large. (A. striatum, Lam. ) — Banks 
of mountain streams, Georgia and northward. May. — A shrub or small tree, 
with striped bark. Flowers greenish. - 
2. A. spicatum, Lam. (MOUNTAIN Marr.) Racemes compos, 
erect; flowers small, very numerous; petals linear-spatulate; leaves cordate, 
3-lobed, coarsely serrate ; samara small. — With the preceding.— Shrub 69 — 109 
high. Leaves pubescent beneath. 
* * Flowers on long and drooping umbellate or corynibose pico developed from 
=~ lateral and terminal buds, —— 
3. A. saccharinum, Wang. (Sucar Marre.) Leaves rales, with 
AK acute or aeua MM otho lobes, paler and Sihir mene. be- 
