GfclTANIUM TRIBE 



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i. Acer {Maple) 



i. A. campestre (Common Maple). Leaves 

 5-lobed ; lobes bluntish, scarcely cut ; clus- 

 ters of flowers erect. Woods and hedges ; 

 a small tree, with very rugged corky bark, 

 full of deep cracks. Fl. May, June. Tree. 



2. A. pseudo-platanus (Greater Maple or ^^M 

 Sycamore). Leaves 5-lobed ; lobes unequally /P 

 serrated; clusters of flowers drooping. Ay. 

 large and handsome tree, introduced in tor 

 England before the fourteenth century, and^ 

 now completely naturalized. The name Syca- 

 more was given to it by the older botanists, 

 who erroneously believed it to be identical 

 with the Sycamore or Mulberry-fig of Palestine, 

 which it somewhat resembles in the size and 

 form of its leaves. Fl. May. Tree. 



Acer Campestre 

 (Common Maple) 



Natural Order XX 



GERANIACE^:. Geranium 

 Tribe 



Flowers regular in all the 

 British genera except Impatiens ; 

 sepals 5, overlapping when in 

 bud ; petals 5, twisted when 

 in bud ; stamens 5-10, generally 

 united by their filaments ; ovary 

 of 5 carpels placed round a long 

 awl-shaped beak ; stigmas 5 ; fruit 

 beaked, tapering into 5 capsules, 

 each of which is 1 or more 

 seeded, and terminates in the 

 hardened style, which finally 

 separates at the base and curls 

 up, carrying the capsule with it. 

 For characteristics of the irregular 

 flowers, see Impatiens. An ex- 

 tensive Order of annual or per- 

 ennial herbs and shrubs, in which 

 some botanists have included the 

 nearly allied Balsams, Oxalis, and 

 Tropceolums. To the genus Pelar- 

 gonium belong the innumerable varieties of handsome flowering 

 plants, which, under the name of Geraniums, are so ornamental as 

 greenhouse or window flowers. These greenhouse Geraniums were 



Acer Pseudo-Platanus (Great Maple 

 or Sycamore) 



