MAPLE 



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hark corky, often in high thin 

 ridges on the branches, hut shallow 

 fissured on stem. Leaves green, 

 palmately lohed. Flowers yellowish- 

 green in erect coryrahs; fruit tu-o- 

 winged. 



Fig. 86. Actr cainpentre, Alaple. Uark (iiv). 



Acer camj)estre, 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 



