18. ACERACE^. 19. OERANIACE^. 69 



fringed with sessile glands, pet. OTate-lanceolate fringed with 

 glands. — St. 12 — 18 in. high, nearly simple. H. in loose, axil- 

 laxy, opposite, and terminal panicles. Buds tipped with red. 

 Anth. red.— Dry heaths, banks, woods. P. VI. vH. E. S. I. 



*•** Styles 3 ; stam. united throughout their lower hcdf in 3 sets, 

 a scale between each set ; pet. equal-sided. 



12. H. eUdes (L.) ; st. ascending round shaggy rooting below, 

 I. roundish-ovate sessile pellucid-punctate shaggy, Sep. ovate 

 blimtish glabrous fringed with shortly stalked (reddishj rfands, 

 pet. ovate entire, styles nearly as long as the capsules. — -Elodes 

 palustris M. vi. 342.' — St. prostrate below, then ascending and 

 leafy, 6 — 8 in. long. Fl. in terminal and axillary few-ilowered 

 panicles.— Spongy bogs. P. Vll.VIII. E.S.I. 



Order XVIII. ACEEACE./E. 



Oal. 6-, rarely 4 — 9-parted, imbricate. Pet. the same number, 

 inserted round an hypogynous disk. Stam. generally 8, inserted 

 on the hypogynous disk. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled. Style 1. 

 Stigmas 2. Fruit winged, separating into two indehiscent nuts 

 each with 1 cell and 1 — 2 seeds. Embryo curved, albumen 0, — 

 Trees with opposite leaves. 



1. AcEE. Fl. some imperfect. Calyx 5-parted. Pet. 5. 

 Stam. usually 8, longer in the male flowers. 



1. A'cER Linn. Maple. 



1. A. campes'tre (L.) ; 1. 6-lobed, lobes entirely or slightly 

 cut, corymbs erect, sep. and pet. linear hairy, wings of the fruit 

 horizontally diverging, ovary downy, stam. of the male flowers 

 ss long as the corolla. — A small tree with corky fissured bark. 

 —Woods and hedges. T. V. VI. Maple. E. S. ? I. 



J2. A. Pseudo-plat amis (L.) ; 1. 5-lobed unequally serrate, 

 racemes pendulous, ovary downy with spreading wings, stam. of 

 the male flowers twice as long as the corolla. — R. v. 164. — A 

 large handsome tree. — In hedges and plantations even in the 

 North of Scotland. T. V. VI. Sycamore. E. S. 



Order XIX. GERANIACE^. 



Sep. 5, persistent, imbricate. Pet. 5, clawed, twisted in the 

 bud. Stam. generally monadelphous, 2 or 3 times as many as 



