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most delicate little flowers with five-petalled corollas. 

 These flowers change into hanging clusters of two- 

 winged seeds which are bright red a month later. But 

 this lovely brilliant red cools off in autumn to a dull 

 brown. These winged seeds or "keys" of the Acer 

 spictttiim are the smallest fruits of the American maples. 

 The tree gets its name spicatum from its inflorescence, 

 erect panicles or spikes of bloom. 



Acer Tartaricum, var. Ginnala. {Tartarian Maple, 

 variety Ginnala. No. 66.) Near the Corylopsis, about 

 southeast of it, some dozen feet, you will find this pretty 

 maple, the Ginnala variety of the Tartarian maple. It 

 is not very high, about five feet, and is rather a shrub 

 now. You can pick it out by its three-lobed leaves, the 

 middle one longer. Their margins are doubly serrated. 

 Its flowers are fragrant and yellow and appear in rather 

 long-stemmed panicles which are very beautiful. This 

 handsome little maple is an importation from China and 

 Japan. In the autumn its leaves turn a brilliant scarlet. 



^sculus macrostachya. (Dwarf or Long-racemed 

 Horsechestnut. No. 4.) If you take the path which 

 leads off northerly from Bow Bridge, you will find, on 

 your right, near the first fork of the Walk, a handsome 

 cluster of these dwarf horsechestnuts. They can be 

 known easily by their low growths, level, shelf-like 

 habit of foliage, and by their palmate leaves. These 

 shrubs get the botanical name macrostachya from two 

 Greek words, macros, long, and stachus, spike ; in refer- 

 ence to their flowers, which shoot up in long, conspic- 

 ious spikes of white bloom. These fairly cover the 

 shrubs with their tapering cones of florescence in July. 



