Sycamore maple blossoms 



The Norway maple is botanically Acer plata- 

 noides, really meaning plane -like maple, from the 

 similarity of its leaves to those of the European 

 plane. The sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-plat- 

 anus, which, being translated, means that old 

 Linnaeus thought it a sort of false plane -like 

 maple. Both are European species, but both are 

 far more familiar, as street and lawn trees, to us 

 dwellers in cities than are many of our purely 

 American species. There is a little difference in 

 the bark of the two, and the leaves of the syca- 

 more, while almost identical in form, are darker 



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