18. ACERACER. 59 
elliptical entire without dots or glands, styles half the length of 
the capsule—£. B. 371. R. vi. 347.—Fragrant. St. two feet 
high, simple. Fl. in terminal dense panicles. Seeds with longi- 
tudinal crenate ridges.— Bushy limestone hills. P. VII. VIII. E. 
11. H. pulchrum (L.) ; st. erect round glabrous, 1. cordate am- 
plexicaule pellucid-punctate glabrous, sep. broadly ovate obtuse 
Fringed with sessile glands, pet. ovate-lanceolate fringed with 
glands.—E. B. 1227.—St. 12—18 in. high, nearly simple. Fi. 
in loose, axillary, opposite, and terminal panicles. Buds tipped 
with red. Anth. red.—Dry heaths, banks, woods. P. VI. VII. 
*eE* Styles 3; stam. united in lower half in 3 sets, a scale 
between each set ; pet. equal-sided. 
12. H. elodes (L.); st. ascending round shaggy rooting below, 
i. roundish-ovate sessile pellucid-punctate shaggy, sep. ovate 
bluntish glabrous fringed with shortly stalked glands, pet. ovate 
entire, styles nearly as long as the capsules.—F. B. 109. Elodes 
palustris R. vi. 342.—St. prostrate below, then ascending and 
leafy. Fl. in terminal and axillary few-flowered panicles. “ Seeds 
longitudinally furrowed.” Leight. Spongy bogs. P. VII. VII. 
Order XVIII. ACERACEZ. 
Cal. 5-, rarely 4—9-parted, imbricated. Pet. the same number, 
inserted round a hypogynous disk. Stam. generally 8, inserted 
on the hypogynous disk. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled. Style 1. 
Stigmas 2. Fruit winged, separating into 2 indehiscent nuts 
each with 1 cell and 1—2seeds. Embryo cwved, albumen 0.— 
Trees with opposite leaves. 
1. Acer. Fl. polygamous. Calyx 5-parted. Pet.5. Stam. 
usually 8, longer in the male flowers. 
1. Acer Linn. 
1. A. campestre (L.); 1. 5-lobed, lobes entire or slightly cut, 
corymbs erect, sep. and pet. linear hairy, wings of the fruit hori- 
zontally diverging, ovary downy, stam. of the male flowers as 
long as the corolla—#. B. 304. R. v. 162.—A small tree with 
corky fissured bark.—Woods and hedges. T. V. VI. Maple. 
+2. A. Pseudo-platanus (L.); 1. 5-lobed unequally serrated, 
racemes pendulous, ovary downy with spreading wings, stam. of 
the male flowers twice as long as the corolla.— FE. B. 303. R. v. 
164.—A large handsome tree.—In hedges and plantations. T. 
V. VI. Sycamore. 
