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cuneate at base. High up on the Bear Canon Forest 
Reserve trail, among the rocks of the Aspen Society. 
May. 
3. SAPINDACEAE. soapserry Ff’. 
Ours trees with compound or lobed leaves; ovules 
few but seldom solitary. One suborder is represented 
by the commonly planted MHorsechesnut, AEsculus 
hippocastaum, and the Ohio Buckeye, AH. glabra; has 
irregular flowers. Ours belong to the suborder acrrr- 
NEAE with flowers polygygamous or dioecious, regular 
often without petals, leaves opposite, without 
stipules; fruit consisting of the well known double 
samara of the maples. 
Leaves palmately lobed; flowers polygamous, ACER. 
Leaves pinnate; flowers dioecious, apetalous NEGUNDO. 
Acrr, Tourn, Maple. 
A. GLABRUM, Torr. Shrub 6 to 10 feet high, leaves 
subreniform, orbicular in outline, 3-lobed or more 
usually 3-parted, segments short and broad, acutely in- 
cise and toothed, somewhat 3-lobed, middle one cueate. 
Close to the streams in the Sandia Mountains among 
the Spruces. 
NEGUNDO, Moench, Box-elder. 
A good-sized tree, quite common along the streams 
in the canons of the mountains and one of the most 
successful when planted in town. 
N. ACEROIDES, Moench, (Maple-like B.,) A tree 
with light green twigs and very delicate drooping 
clusters of small greenish flowers, appearing rather 
earlier than the leaves whcih have generally three, 
sometimes 5, leaflets, smoothish when old, very veiny, 
ovate, pointed, toothed; fruit smooth, with large, rath- 
er incurved winugs. 
33. ANACARDICEAE. sumacu FaAmIty. 
Ours shrubs with alternate simple or compound 
leaves without stipules, small regular, polygamous or 
dioecious flowers; fruit a dry drupe (i. e. a one-seed- 
ed hard fruit surrounded by a fleshy portion,) much 
relished by birds. 
Ruus, L. Swmach. 
Sepals and petals usually 5, stamens inserted under 
the edge of a disk lining the base of the calyx. 
Leaflets 11 to 31. 
Whitened underneath, - - - 8. GLABRA. 
Paler underneath, - - - &. SARBIFOLIA. 
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