Acer campestre, 
THE FIELD MAPLE. 
Synonymes. 
Acer campestre, 
Erable champetre, 
Kleiner Ahorn, Feld Ahorn, 
Galluzzi, (when small,) Loppo, Pioppo, 
Chioppo, Stucchio, Festucchio, Fistuc- 
chio, Albero da vite, 
Field Maple, 
C Linnjeus, Species Plantarum. 
I De Candolle, Prodromus. 
J Don, Miller's Dictionary. 
j Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
^ Selby, British Forest Trees. 
France. 
Germany. 
J Italy. 
Britain and Anglo- America. 
Derivations The specific name, campestre, is derived from the Latin campus, a field, having reference to this tree as 
growing about 'hedges and open fields. The French, German, and English names have the same signification. 
Engravings. Selby, British Forest Trees, p. 27; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, i. ; figure 132, p. 458, et. v. pi. 43; and 
the figures below. 
Specific Characters. Leaves cordate, with 5-toothed lobes. Racemes erect. Wings of fruit much divari- 
cated. Don, Miller's Diet. 
Description. 
aSSSgSjgHE Field Maple, 
Oj i-i i-J |i when cultivated 
U? LI '1$ under favoura- 
ufigisdm D ^ e circumstan- 
ces, forms a tree of the second or 
third order, with a handsome outline, 
and picturesque appearance. In its 
natural habitat, it seldom exceeds the 
height of twenty" feet, although in a 
state of cultivation, it often attains 
more than double that elevation. 
Varieties. In the Acer campestre, 
we recognize six forms or varieties, 
which may be described as follows : 
1. A. c. hebecarpum, Loudon. Downy-fruited Field Maple. This variety is 
the form usually regarded by British authors as the type of this species, and is 
characterized as rather a small tree, with spreading branches ; the bark corky, 
and full of fissures ; that of the branches smooth. The leaves about one and a 
half inches broad, downy while young, as are their footstalks, obtusely five- 
lobed, irregularly notched, and sometimes quite entire. The flowers grow in 
clusters, which terminate the young shoots ; they are hairy, erect, short, some- 
what corymbose, and of a green colour. The anthers are hairy between the 
lobes. The capsules downy, spreading horizontally, with smooth, oblong, red- 
dish wings. 
2. A. c. foliis variegatis, Loudon. Variegated-leaved Field Maple. This 
variety is considered as the handsomest of all the variegated-leaved maples. 
