* 
92 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS, 
fieietion low grounds ; swampy woodlands : Canada to Florida. Fl. March-April. Fr. 
ptem 
Obs. The ee with pean or tawny flowers i ’ quite poe 
m Pennsylva a pretty extensive examination, I find t 
flowers Sentralty srhoar tie and i mre (rarely nia ith ; while the right 
rs are constantly perfect. The wood of the Red Maple— 
especially that a or wre of it, known as Cu ed M aple—is much 
used in a ‘acture rious articles of furniture, &c., and the 
mber serra Caliagt “fuel. The bark affords a dark ‘purplish- 
blue aye, and makes a pretty Boe, bluish-black ink. The sap of all 
the species is more or less sacchar 
2. NEGUN’DO, Moench. ive 
[Origin of the name obscure.] 
Diecious. Sr pera - 5-cleft. Petals none. Sraminate Fi. 
mostly with 5 stamens on capillary clustered — PISTILLATE 
Fi. in see seeds eblalaee racemes. Fru n Acer. Leaves 
pinna . 
1, N. aceroi’des, Moench. Leaves pinnate in threes or fives ; leaflets 
Hombiooraie, coarsely cut-toothed. 
AcER-LIKE NeGunpo. Box-elder. Ash-leaved Maple. 
20-40 feet high, branched ; young branches with a yellowish-green bark. Leaflds . 
odd-pin mon 
— Flowers yellowish green, from lateral buds ; ovaries hairy ; frutt div verging. 
rn States. April. 
i 9g yemngehs — tree, more abundant in the South and West 
Fags in the Eastern 
mae XXIV. POLYGALA’CEA. (Muxwort Famity.) 
with sce alternate les iron and Regret leaves, without stipules, and irregular some- — 
what ppitionace ous flowers. 8, diadel hers Vcelled, opening by & 
pore at the summit. Saul curva ots often hooaed.  Prait s Seclied 2-sceded cayeule: 
1. POLYGA’LA, Townef. Muuxworr. , 
[Greek, Poly, much, and Gala, lacteal secretion.} 
ae 
Sepals 5, persistent ; the nc and two lower ones small, greenish ; the 
two lateral ones (called wings) mauch larger and petal-like.. Petals 3, 
hy ous cted wit 0 be ; the 
, con ch other and with the stamen-tube ; 
middle or lower one kee . Capsule compr con- 
o the narrow partition, loculicidal. 
Tacoma’ az ae appendage at the hilum. 
dint ega, L. the Sea e aes snp te alin Tears. gered 
