Acer pseudo- 
platanus 
Acer 
platanoides 
78 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
ACE RAGEAT 
ACER PSEUDO-PLATANUS. 
Loudon, v. 1, 414. 
The bark of the trunk in young trees is, as 
Loudon says, very smooth; but in old trees it 
exfoliates, or comes off in squarish flakes, some- 
what after the manner of the plane tree, but less 
copiously and regularly. 
Of the trees which are native or commonly 
cultivated in England, there are but few which 
have the leaves (and consequently the leaf-buds 
and branches), regularly opposite. The Sycamore 
is one of these few, and may easily be recognised 
when leafless, by its large, oval, smooth, light 
ereen leaf-buds, which are not in the least 
elutinous. The ash is known by its blackish leaf- 
buds, clothed with a peculiar minute mealy kind 
of pubescence. The buds of the Horse-chesnut 
are in shape a good deal like those of the 
Sycamore, but still larger, dark brown, very 
elutinous, and as if varnished; those of the 
common Maple very small, dark brown, bearded 
with tufts of minute white hairs. 
ACER PLATANOIDES. 
Loudon, v. 1, 408. 
Many good trees of this in various parts of 
the grounds. A very handsome tree. Its ap- 
