XIII. ^cei;a CEii: : ^;'cek. 



91 







Distinguished from A. 

 rubrum by the leaves 

 being more decidedly 3- 

 lobed, the lobes deeply cut, 

 and the whole leaf more 

 tomentose. A very desir- 

 able species, from the ra- 

 pidity of its growth, the 

 iiracefnl 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 tiian 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 succeedmg autumn. 



'i 14. A. RU^BRUM Ij. The red-lowering, or scarlet, Ma[)le. 



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



I. p. 249. 

 Si/nonymes. A. virginiannm Herm. ; A. coccjneum Ait. 8; Mick. ; A. glauca Marsh. Arhiist. \ A. ca- 



roliniannm Walt. ; A- sangulneum Spach; soft Maple, Swamp Maple, red Maple; E rable rouge, 



Fr. ; rother Ahorn, (ler. 

 Engravin<is. Mich. Arb., 2. 1. 14.; Schrault Arb., 1. t. 6. ; the plate of the tree in Arb. Brit, 1st 



edit. vol. V. ; our j?^'. 13S. ; ^m\fig. 160. of the leaves, of the natural size, in the plate forming 



p. 1 19. 



l.^T. ^Ver eriocarpum. 



138. A\:a rtibnim. 



Spec. Char., ^c. 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. (Doit's Mill.) A 



