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however, has the leaves 5-lobed, while in A, monspessulanum they are only 
3-iobed. See the figures of leaves in p. 120. and 121. The leaves, in mild 
seasons, remain on through the greater part of the winter. Seeds ; which it 
ripens in great abundance. 
¥ 16. 4. campr’strE L. The common, or Field, Maple. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 1497. ; Hayne Dend., p.211.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 595. ; Don’s Mill. 1. p.649. 
Synonymes. E/rable champétre, Fr.; kleiner Ahorn, Feld Ahorn, Ger.; Galluzzi, or Pioppo, Itai. 
Engravings. Engl. Bot., t.304.; Willd. Abbild., t. 213.; ourjig.141.; and jig. 162. of the leaves, 
of the natural size, in the plate forming p. 120. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves cordate, with 5toothed lobes. Racemes erect. 
Wings of fruit much divaricated. (Don's Mill.) A low tree or shrub. 
Britain. Height 15 ft. to 30 ft., sometimes 40 ft. and upwards. "Flowers 
yellowish green; Mav and June. Keys brown; ripe inSeptember. Decay- 
ing leaves yellow. Naked young wood pale brown. 
149. A’cer campéstre. 
Varieties. 
* A.c. 2 foliis variegatis. —Next to the variegated-leaved variety of A. 
Psetido-Platanus, this seems the handsomest of all the variegated- 
leaved maples; the leaves preserving, with their variegation, the 
appearance of health, and the blotches and stripes of white, or 
whitish yellow, being distinctly marked. 
* A.c. 3 hebecdrpum Dec.-Prod. i. p.598. A. campéstre Wallr. in 
Litt. Trat. Arch. i. No.7; A. mélle Opiz.— Fruit clothed with vel- 
vety pubescence. 
*% A.c. 4 collinum Wallr. in Litt. Dec. Prod. i. p. 594. _ A. affine and 
A. macrocérpum. Opiz.— Fruit smooth. Lobes of leaves obtuse. 
Flower smaller. Native of France. 
* A. c. 5 austriacum Tratt. Arch. i. No.6. (The plate of this tree in 
Arb. Brit., 1st. edit., vol. v.)—Fruit smooth. Lobes 
of leaves somewhat acuminated. Flowers larger 
than those of the species. Native of Austria, 
Podolia, and Tauria. (Don’s Mill.) This variety 
is larger in all its parts than the original species, 
and is of much freer growth; the main stem rises 
erect and straight, and sends out its branches 
regularly on every side, so as to form a sort of 
cone, almost like a fir. A subvariety of this sort, 
with variegated leaves, is propagated in the Boll- 
wyller Nursery. 
Other Varieties. A, c. levigdtum, leaves very smooth 
and shining; A. c. ndnum, habit dwarf; and, perhaps, 
some others, are in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. 
A. tairicum, leaves larger and less divided than in the 
species; and A. hyrednum (fig.141.) with the leaves vari- 
ously cut, are also in some collections. 
Differing from A. monspessulanuin in having the flowers produced upon 
141. A.c hyrcinum. 
