OCTANDRI \, DIGTNIA. L35 



9w*9tp Maple. Hcd Maple* Scarlet Maple. 



A common-fixed tree with red flowers and leeds; common. 



April, M 



:. A. leaves palmate. 5-lobed, acuminate-serrate, jMj mnjwfc 

 pubescent underneath, and glaucous almost to 

 whiteness; flowers in clustered umbels; germs 

 tomentose. — s '/>. FL 



A. eriocarpum, Mich. f. 



V. tomentosum, Ilort. paris. 



Icon. Mich. Arb. forest vol. 2. p. 205. t. 13. 



^liver-leaved Maple, White Maple. Soft Maple. 



\ large tre€ with greenish-yellow flowers and seeds. On the 

 hanks of the Schuj lkill, and elsewhere ; common. April, .May. 



A. leaves pinnate and ternate, unequally scr- xeguirao. 

 rate: flowers dioicons — 9p, PI. 



Icon. Mich. Arbr. forest, vol. 2. p. 247. t. IS. 



Box Elder. Ash-leaved Maple. 



A very large tree, not so common as No. 1, and No. 2. On 

 the Schu\lkill, neat the tails, east side, and elsewhere. May, 

 Tune. 



ORDER II. DIGYMA. 



190. CIIRYS<MM.K\n \I Gen. pi. 763. (Saxifrage.) 



Calix superior, 1 or cleft, coloured. Co- 

 vol (a none. Capsule birostrate; 1 -celled, 

 many- seeded. 



i.e. leaves opposite, subrotund, narrowed at theywo*^ 

 base into a petiole, \ei-y smooth, emmte. — 11 did. 

 Icon. FL Dan. 365. Engl. Bot 4 ( ju. 



Opposite-lcarocd a olden Saxifrage. 



A fubmqt] mt with *er) inconspicuous Bowers. Very 



rare in tlua neighbourhood. I hare only found it in a rii 



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