XI. ACERA‘CEA: 4'CER. 91 
Distinguished from 4. 
rubrum by the leaves 
being more decidedly 5- 
lobed, the lobes deeply cut, 
and the whole leaf more 
tomentose. A very desir- 
able species, from the ra- 
pidity of its growth, the 
graceful divergent direction 
of its branches, the beauty 
of its leaves, and the pro- 
fusion of its early flowers, 
In mild seasons, these flow- 
ers begin to burst from 
their buds in the first week 
in January ; and they are 
often fully expanded by the end of February or beginning of March. It 
requires a deep free soil, and more moisture than most of the other species. 
It ripens its seeds, both in America and Britain, by midsummer, or earlier ; 
and, if these are immediately sown, they come up, and produce plants which 
are 8 or 10 inches high by the succeeding autumn. 
137, Avcer erivcdrpum. 
¥ 14, A. ru‘BRuM LZ. The red-flowering, or scarlet, Maple. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 1496.; Dec. Prod., 1. p.595.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 650. ; Tor. and Gray, 
1. p. 249. 
Syiidnyind, A. virginianum Herm. ; 4. coccineum dit. § Mich.; A. glatica Marsh. Arbust.; 4. ca- 
rolinianum Walt. ; A. sanguineum Spach; soft Maple, Swamp Maple, red Maple; E’rable rouge, 
Fr.; rother Ahorn, Ger. : (i 
Engravings. Mich. Arb., 2. t.14.; Schmidt Arb., 1. t.6.; the plate of the tree in Arb. Brit., Ist 
edit., vol.v.; our fig.138.; and fig. 160. of the leaves, of the natural size, in the plate forming 
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138. Avcez rbbrum. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves cordate at the base, glaucous beneath, deeply and 
unequally toothed, palmately 5-lobed, with acute recesses. Flowers con- 
glomerate, 5-petaled, pentandrous. Ovaries smooth. (Don’s Mill.) A 
