MAPLE FAMILY. 91 
cup-like, Petals none. Fruit finctndinig: the wing) 2-3 inches long, one of the: 
usually abortive : s Pedicels of ite fruit an inch long. . Seeds large’; embryo nearly straight, 
Banks of rivers: Main eorgia. Fl. April, ” Fr. May —June. 
Obs. This has been extensively. introduced into. our cities and vil- 
N ornamental tree,—and is often mistaken for the true See 
Maple. It appears, indeed, from the researches of Prof. A. @ t 
Liynarus established the A.saccharinum upon a specimen of a plant; 
as it Was i 
ont 
means to be compared the Sugar Maple, even as a sha 
and much less for its Soonouhiedl vile 
it 
Petals 5. 
A. ru : es generally 3-lobed with the sinuses acute, 
subcordate at oy pet acute, spreading, unequally incised- 
dentate ; flowers aggregated on rather long pedicels; ovary sista ous. 
Stem 
pearin, batons fen beter in sp mires ome ye mb ay and with 
purple, le; or often ¥ Sowa Pruit (including the wing) near an bre 
ie Atego the Red Maple sit rete winged key-frait (samara,) 
