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SELECTED WESTERN FLORA 



lobed, or obscurely 5-lobed, serrate, glabrous above and whitlsh-pubesoent 

 below, at least when young; racemes dense, upright. Moist woods through 

 Manitoba. 



3. A. Negfindo, L. Box Eldek, Manitoba Maple. 



A fair-sized tree with rough gray bark, and compound leaves, of 3 or 5 

 leaflets; leaflets smooth when old, ovate, irregularly toothed; flowers small, 

 clustered, appearing before the leaves, drooping on long slender pedicels. 

 Common as far west as Meridian 112°, and north to the Sask. River. 



Acer spicatum. 



Fig. 62. — Acer glabrum. 



4. A. glabrum, Torr. 



A shrub, or low, rather spreading tree with smooth light-brown twigs; 

 leaves mostly small, 3-5-lobed or 3-foliate, the lobes or leaflets unequally 

 but somewhat sharply serrate, glabrous or almost so. (Var. tripartitum) , 

 a form in which the leaves are mostly 3-foliate. Rocky Mts. 



XLIX. BALSAMINACE.^ (Balsam Family). 



Succulent herbs with alternate, simple, exstipulate leaves and 

 irregular flowers. Sepals 3, two small and green, the other largo, 

 petal-like and spmTed; petals 2, each 2-lobed; stamens 5, with 

 short flat fllaments ; ovary 5-celled. 



1. IMPATIENS. Touch-me-not. 



Herbs with orange or yellow flowers and seed pods which burst 

 siiddenly on being touphed. 



