TREES AND SHRUBS 



petals ; Ovary glabrous ; Fruit a samara, large, flat, thin, smooth ; wings 

 slightly curved, nearly horizontal, each 2] ins. long; seed not usually produced 

 till between forty and fifty years old. 



Leaves palmate, angularly 5-lobed, cordate at base, lobes broad, acuminate ; 

 thin, deep glossy green above, glabrous, shining, few coarse, sharply-pointed 

 serratures, shortly petiolate, 4 ins. long, 7 ins. broad. Autumn tint yellow, 

 or yellow tinged with red. 



A deciduous tree, 50-60 ft., with dense round head ; Bark of young shoots 

 bright green, afterwards changing to reddish-brown dotted with white points ; 

 bark of trunk fissured, not scaly ; Buds scaly, quadrangular. 



Introduced from Europe, 1G83. 



SYCAMORE, Acer Pseudo-platamis 



Looked upon in the fourteenth century as a rare exotic, this tree is 

 now common in parks, gardens, and avenues, where, as Gerard and Parkin- 

 son both have told us, " it specially is planted for the shadowe-sake." No tree 

 propagates itself more readily in this country. May, June. 



Flowers greenish-yellow, protandrous, staminate or bisexual, visited by 

 bees; Inflorescence a pendulous raceme of umbellate cymes, pedicels short; 

 Sepals 4-9 ; Petals 4-9 ; Stamens 8, rather long, hairy, inserted on a fleshy 

 hypogynous disk; Ovary 2-lobed, tomentose, style 1, stigmas 2, curved; 

 Fruit a samara, scimitar-shaped, wings divergent, red-brown, U ins. long; 

 produced after twenty years. 



Leaves opposite, palmately 5-lobed, cordate at base, unequally serrated, 

 lobes acuminate, glabrous beneath ; exstipidate, 4-8 ins. across, dark shining 

 green above, paler, sometimes reddish beneath, often viscid with honey dew; 

 petiole slender, green or red. Autumn tint brown. 



A deciduous tree, 40-60 ft. ; Branches large, massive, rounded ; branchlcts 



turned upwards and slightly thickened ; Bark ash-grey, flaking, smooth ; 



Buck ovoid-pointed, scales olive-green with brown border ; young ivood soft, 



white, older a yellowish tint ; used for furniture. 



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