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however, has the leaves 5-lobed, while in A. monspessulanum they are only 

 3-iobed. See the figures of leaves in p. 120. and 121. The leaves, in mild 

 seasons, remain on through the greater part of the winter. Seeds ; which it 

 ripens in great abundance. 



16. A. CAMPE'STRE L. The common, or Field, Maple. 



Identification. Lin. Spec., 1497. , Hayne Dend., p.211. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 595. ; Don's Mill., 1. p.649. 

 Synonymes. E'rable champetre, JFV.; kleiner Ahorn, Feld Ahorn, Ger.i Galluzzi, or Pioppo, Ital. 

 Engravings. Engl. Bot., t.304. ; Willd. Abbild., t. 213. j our Jig. 141. ; and Jig. 162. of the leaves, 

 of the natural size, in the plate forming p. 120. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves cordate, with 5 toothed lobes. Racemes erect. 

 Wings of fruit much divaricated. (Don's Mill.) A low tree or shrub- 

 Britain, Height 15ft. to 30ft., sometimes 40ft. and upwards. Flowers 

 yellowish green ; May and June. Keys brown \ ripe in September. Decay- 

 ing leaves yellow. Naked young wood pale brown. 



140. A^cec campstre. 



Varieties. 



* A. c. 2 f dins variegdtis. Next to the variegated-leaved variety of A. 

 Pseudo-Platanus, this seems the handsomest of all the variegated- 

 leaved maples ; the leaves preserving, with their variegation, the 

 appearance of health, and the blotches and stripes of white, or 

 whitish yellow, being distinctly marked. 



A. c. 3 hebecdrpum Dec. Prod. i. p. 598. A. campestre Wallr. in 

 Litt. Trat. Arch. i. No. 7 ; A. molle Opiz. Fruit clothed with vel- 

 vety pubescence. 



t A. c. 4 colllnum Wallr. in Litt. Dec. Prod. i. p. 594. A. affine and 

 A. macrocarpum Opiz. Fruit smooth. Lobes of leaves obtuse. 

 Flower smaller. Native of France. 



*t A. c. 5 austriacum Tratt. Arch. i. No. 6. (The plate of this tree in 

 Arb. Brit.,lst. edit., vol. v.) Fruit smooth. Lobes 

 of leaves somewhat acuminated. Flowers larger 

 than those of the species. Native of Austria, 

 Podolia, and Tauria. (Don's Mill.) This variety 

 is larger in all its parts than the original species, 

 and is of much freer growth ; the main stem rises 

 erect and straight, and sends out its branches 

 regularly on every side, so as to form a sort of 

 cone, almost like a fir. A subvariety of this sort, 

 with variegated leaves, is propagated in the Boll- 

 wyller Nursery. 



Other Varieties. A. c. kevigdtum, leaves very smooth 

 and shining; A. c. ndnum, habit dwarf; and, perhaps, 

 some others, are in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. 

 A. tauricum, leaves larger and less divided than in the 

 species ; and A. hyrcdnum (jg.l41.) with the leaves vari- 

 ously cut, are also in some collections. 

 Differing from A. monspessulanum in having the flowers produced upon 



141. A. c hyrctaum. 



