498 WCODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
The flowers are small, yellowish-green, very delicate, in an 
erect or nodding, slender, terminal raceme, five to six inches 
long. Partial flower-stalk a thread one third of an inch long. 
Calyx endmg in 5 downy lobes, alternate with which are the 
slender, linear-lanceolate petals, broader at the end, half as 
long as the stamens. Stamens 8, nsing from a glandular, yel- 
low disk, encircling the germ, which, in the barren flowers, 1s 
replaced by a tuft of white hairs. A few of the lower flowers 
in each raceme are usually fertile, and in them the centre of 
the much smaller disk is occupied by the two-pointed germ. 
This plant, like the previous one, is rarely found except in 
the forest. It occurs in moist, rocky, mountainous land, in all 
parts of the State. It assumes, towards autumn, various 1ich 
shades of red, and, as sometimes seen, eighteen or twenty fect 
high, hanging over the sides of a road through woods, with its 
clusters of fruit beneath the leaves, turning yellowish when the 
leaf-stalks are scarlet, 1t has considerable beauty. Like the 
previous species, it may be much improved in size by engraft- 
ing on the larger species of maple. 
