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thickened. (Zor. and Gray). Decaying leaves of a fine reddish yellow. 
Naked young wood reddish brown. 
Branches slender, pendulous, and crooked ; 
often taking root, in the manner of those of 
many species of Ficus. Bark smooth; green 
when young, white when fully grown. Leaf 
the length of the finger, upon rather a short <= 
footstalk, membranacevus, heart-shaped, with = 
7—9 lobes, and 7—9 nerves; smooth above, 
except hairs in the axils of the nerves ; downy 
beneath, and in the axils of the nerves woolly: 
lobes ovate, acute, and acutely serrated ; the 
sinuses acute: the nerves radiate from the tip 
of the petiole, and one extends to the tip of 2 
each lobe. Flowers of a middling size, in & 
nodding corymbs, that are on long peduncles. 
(Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer.) This is a very marked 19h cen eineind tye 
and beautiful species; distinguishable, at sight, by the regular form of its 
leaves, and their pale reddish green colour. Though this fine tree has been 
in the country since 1826, it seems to have been comparatively neglected, for 
there is no good specimen that we know of in the neighbourhood of London. 
At High Clere, a thriving tree has ripened seeds for some years past ; so that 
there can be no doubt of its hardiness, 
& 12. A. patma‘tum Thunb. The palmate-leaved Maple. 
Identification. Thunb. Fl. Jap., p.161.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 595. ; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 650. 
Engravings. Tratt. Arch., 1. No. 17.; and jig. 158. of the leaves, of the natural size, in the plate 
forming p. 117. 
Spec. Char., §c. : Leaves smooth, palmately divided into 5—7 lobes down 
beyond the middle; lobes acuminated, oblong, serrated. Umbels 5—7- 
flowered. (Don’s Mill.) A low deciduous tree; in England a rather deli- 
cate shrub. Japan. Height in Japan, 20 ft. Introd. in 1820. Flowers 
greenish yellow and purple; May. Keys?. Decaying leaves reddish yellow. 
_ This species requires the protection of a wall; having been, like 4. oblongum, 
mae to the ground in the open air, in the Hort. Soc. Garden, in the winter 
of 1837-8. 
#13. 4. eRioca’Rpum Miche. The hairy-fruited, or white, Maple. 
identifications Michastl Amer. Bor., 2. p. 213. ; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 650. 
Synonymes. . dasycérpum ilid. Spec. 4, p.985., Tor. Gray, 1. p.248.; é 
Hort. Par. ; A. gladcum Marsh. ; A. virginidnum. Duh, ae rabrum Warn oe aoe 
leaved, or soft, Maple, United States; Sir Charles Wager’s Maple ; E’rable 4 Fruits cotonneux 
or E’rable blanc, Fr. ; rauher Ahorn, Ger. ; Acero cotonoso, or Acero bianco, Ital. : 
Engravings. Desf. Ann. Mus., 7. t.25.; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. v.; 
our fig. 137.5 aud fig. 159. of the leaves, of the natural size, in the plate forming p. 118. ‘ ae 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves truncate at the base, smooth and glaucous beneath 
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palmately 5-lobed, with blunt recesses, and unequally and deeply toothed 
lobes. Flowers conglomerate, on short pedicels, apetalo Atand ; 
; 8 rate, S p » ap us, pentandrous. 
Ovaries downy. (Don's Mill.) A middle-sized tree. North America, from 
lat. 43° to Georgia. Height in America 10 ft. to 40 ft.; in England 30 ft 
to 50 ft. Introduced in 1725. Flowers small, pale yellowish purple ; 
March and April. Keys brown; ripe in July. , 
Varieties. There are several names in nurserymen’s catalogues, such as A 
coccineum, A. macrocarpum, A. fléridum, 4. Pavia which are onl very 
slight varieties of A. eriocirpum. The last-named variety introdhiced i 
Messrs. Booth, has received the absurd name of Pavia Tou the u - 
surface of the leaves being slightly wrinkled, somewhat ‘in the Sanne of 
those of the horsechestnut. As the species seeds fi ieti 
J reely, en 
may be obtained from seed beds. er nae! 
