420 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ill. 
10s. a 1000, plants 6 ft. high 2s. each, the variegated varieties 2s. 6d. each, 
the purple-leaved 3s. each. At Bollwyller, 80 cents a plant, and the varie- 
gated varieties 1 franc 20 cents a plant; at New York, ?. 
+ 9. A. oprusa‘tum Kit. The obtuse-/obed-leaved Maple. 
Identification. Kit. in Willd. Spec., 4. p. 948.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 594.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 949. 
Synonymes. A. neapolitanum Tenore; A. hybridum, in the Lond. Hort. Soc. Gard. in 1834; the 
Neapolitan Maple. 
Engravings. Tratt. Arch., 1. No.14.; our fig. 124. in p. 450, 451.; and the plate of this species in 
our Second Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves cordate, roundish, 5-lobed; lobes bluntish (or 
pointed), repandly toothed, velvety beneath. Corymbs pendulous. Pe- 
dicles hairy. Fruit rather hairy, with the wings somewhat diverging. 
(Don’s Mill., i. p. 649.) |The flowers are pendulous, pale, and few in the 
panicle. A large tree, with the general habit of A. Psetido-Platanus, but 
apparently of more vigorous growth;.a native of Hungary, Croatia, and 
many parts of Italy; and introduced into England in 1825. ‘On all the 
hills and lower mountains of the kingdom of Naples, in Camaldoni, Cas- 
tellamare, and the Abruzzi, it is found abundantly, growing, usually, to the 
height of 40 ft. It is extremely striking, with its reddish purple branches, 
in the wood of Lucania, between Rotonda and Rubia; and, in the Basi- 
licate, and Calabria, it is said, by Tenore, to acquire colossal dimensions. 
It is certainly very singular that so fine a tree as this, occupying so large a 
tract of country frequently visited by English tourists, should be almost 
unknown in this country; and yet, although it is perfectly hardy, and very 
easily multiplied, it is scarcely ever met with in any but botanical collec- 
tions.” (Pen. Cyc., vol. i. p. 77.) There is a noble specimen of this tree in 
the garden of the London Horticultural Society at Chiswick; which, 
though only 10 or 12 years planted, in 1835 had attained the height of 
26 ft., with a trunk 53 in. in diameter, as shown in our plate in Vol. IT. 
¥10. A. BARBA‘TUM Michr. The bearded-calyxed Maple. 
Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p.252.; Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p.267.; Dec. Prod., 
1. p. 595. ; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 649. 
Synonymes. A. carolinianum Bolt. ; A. trilobatum, in the London Hort. Soc. Gard. in 1835. 
Engravings. A leaf is shown in Pen. Cyc., vol. 1. p. 76. ; and several in our fig. 125. in p, 452. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves heart-shaped, 3-lobed, nearly equally serrated, 
nearly smooth beneath. Clusters sessile. The stalks of the female flowers 
simple, of the male flowers branched. Calyx bearded internally. Keys 
smooth, diverging but little. (Pen. Cyc.) This species, according to 
Pursh, inhabits North America, between New Jersey and Carolina, in deep 
pine and cedar swamps. It was found on the west side of the Rocky 
Mountains, about the sources of the Columbia, by Douglas; but Dr. 
Hooker says the specimens sent home by him are too young to enable him to 
form an opinion as to the correctness of the name. There are two plants 
of this species, under the name of A. trilobatum, in the garden of the Lon- 
don Horticultural Society, where they form low trees, or bushes, about 
10ft. high. In its native country, the tree is said to grow to the height of 
20 ft. The plants named A. barbatum, in the London Horticultural So- 
ciety’s Garden, and in Messrs. Loddiges’s arboretum, and in some of the 
nurseries in 1835, seem to be A. platandides. The leaves, and the general 
appearance of the plant, are those of A. Pseudo-Platanus, diminished, in 
all its parts, to one third of its usual size. This species was introduced in 
1812; and plants of it, under the name of A. trilobatum, may be obtained 
in some of the nurseries. 
D. Leaves 5, rarely 7-lobed. 
¥ 11.4. O’patus Dec. The Opal, or Italian, Maple. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p.436.; Dec. Prod., 1. p.594.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 649. 
Synonymes. A. O’palus Lin., Mill., and other authors ; 4. rotundifdlium Lam. Dict., 3. p. 382.; A. 
italicum Lanth. Ac., No.8.; A. vill¥sum Pres.; VE‘rable Opale, Erable & Feuilles rondes, or 
Lrable d’Italie, Fr. . 
