TREES AND SHRUBS 



glabrous, glaucous beneath, 4 ins. long, 5 ins. broad ; petioles slender, red 

 on upper side. Autumn tint orange-scarlet. 



A deciduous tree, .'$0-80 ft.; Branches loose; tree broad-base, round- 

 topped ; growth slow ; Bark on young steins and branches smooth, grey, 

 tinged red ; old trunks red-brown, furrowed, thin scales ; Buds small, scales 

 ovate, bright red, ciliate ; Wood hard, strong, light-coloured; used for 

 veneer ; maple sugar from sap in small quantities. 



Introduced from N. America, 1735, probahly by Peter Collinson. Also 

 known as 15irds-eye Maple. 



TARTARIAN MAPLE, Acer tartaricum. 



Shrubberies. May. 



Flowers pale yellowish-green, sometimes tinged with red ; Inflorescence 

 a crowded erect, compound raceme ; Fruit a samara, downy and tinged with 

 red when young, smooth and brown when ripe, in August, thin, wings 

 parallel, only slightly separated. 



Leaves cordate, sometimes 3-lobed, acuminate, serrated, reticulated on 

 upper side when young, glabrous on both sux*faces later, bright green above, 

 4 ins. long, 21 ins. broad. Autumn tint reddish-yellow or brown. 



A deciduous tree, 12-30 ft. : round head, sometimes 20 ft. diam. 



A native of Tartary and south of European Russia ; introduced 1759. 

 One of the earliest to expand its leaves. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division II. . . . Calycijlorce 

 Natural Order . . Staphyleacece 



Branched shrubs with opposite, stipulate, 3-5 foliate or pinnate leaves, 



and regular, white flowers in axillary racemes or panicles ; Sepals 5, equal, 



deciduous ; Petals 5, erect, about as long as calyx, imbricated ; Stamens 5, 



perigynous ; Ovary superior ; Fruit a membranous capsule, bladder-like. 



A small Order, sometimes placed with the Celastrinea? or Sapindaceae. 



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