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bark corky, often in high thin 

 ridges on the branches, but shallow 

 fissured on stem. Leaves green, 

 palmately lobed. Flowers yellowish- 

 green in erect corymbs; fruit two- 



Fig. 86. Acer cawpestre, Maple. Bark (Irv). 



Acer campestre, L. Maple (Figs. 86, 87). Crown ovoid- 

 conic to broadly pyramidal, and may be very densely 

 branched. The small hairy buds, paler reddish-tawny 

 bark, and the tendency, often very pronounced, to form 

 prominent corky ridges, sometimes like wings, on even 



