XIII. *ERA V CE<: 



91 



Distinguished from A. 

 riibrimi by the leaves 

 being more decidedly 5- 

 lobed,the lobes deeply cut, 

 and the whole leaf more 

 tomentose. A very desir- 

 able species, from* the ra- 

 pidity of its growth, the 

 graceful divergent direction 

 of its branches, the beauty 

 of its leaves, and the pro- 

 fusion of its early flowers. 

 In mild seasons, these flow- 

 ers begin to burst from 

 their buds in the first week 

 in January ; and they are 

 often fully expanded by the end of February or beginning of March. It 

 requires a deep free soil, and more moisture than most of the other species. 

 It ripens its seeds, both in America and Britain, by midsummer, or earlier ; 

 and, if these are immediately sown, they come up, and produce plants which 

 are 8 or 10 inches high by the succeeding autumn. 



? 14. A. RU'BRUM L. The red-flowering, or scarlet, Maple. 

 Identification. Lin. Spec., 1496. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 595. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 650. ; Tor. and Gray, 



Synonymes. A. virginianum Herm. \ A. cocclneum Ait. $ Mich. ; A. glafica Marsh. Arbust. ; A. ca- 

 rolinianum Walt. ; A. sanguineum Spach; soft Maple, Swamp Maple, red Maple; E rable rouge, 

 Fr. ; rother A horn, Ger. 



Engravings. Mich. Arb., 2. t.14.; Schmidt Arb., 1. t.6. ; the plate of the tree in Arb. Brit., 1st 

 edit., vol. v. ; our Jig. 138. ; and fig. 1GO. of the leaves, of the natural size, in the plate forming 



137. 4'cer eri'>c<Jrpum. 



138. A^cei rtbrnm. 



Spec. Char,, fyc. Leaves cordate at the base, glaucous beneath, deeply and 

 unequally toothed, palmately 5-lobed, with acute recesses. Flowers con- 

 glomerate, 5-petaled, pentandrous. Ovaries smooth. (Don's Mill.) A 



