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6. Acer faccharum. The Sugar Maple. 



This grows to a large tree of two feet or more in 

 diameter, and fifty or fixty feet high. The leaves 

 fomethiug refemble the Silver-leaved Maple, but are 

 not fo large, nor deeply lobcd; or of fo fine a filver 

 colour, it flowers in manner of the Scarlet Maple, 

 but the flowers are of an herbaceous colour; and 

 produces large joined winged feeds. The back in- 

 habitants make a pretty good fugar, and in confider- 

 abie quantity, of the fap of this and the Silver-leaved 

 Maple; and though thcfe have generally been pre- 

 ferred, yet all our Maples yield a fap which affords a 

 pretty good fugar. 



^ S C U L U S. 



THE HORSE-CHESNUT.TR.ee. 

 Clafs 7, Order i. Heptandria Monogynia, 



THE Empalement is of one leaf, tiibulouSj fmall and five- 

 toothed. 



The Corolla confifts of five petals, roundifli, waved with a plait- 

 ed margin, plane, fpreading, unequally coloured, and infert- 

 ed by narrow claws into the calyx. 



The Filaments are feven (fometinies eight) awl-fhaped, the 

 length of the corolla, and declined. The Antherce riling. 



The Germen is roundilTi, ending in an awl iTi aped Style. The 

 Stigma lharp pointed. 



The Seed-veJ[el a capfule, coriaceous, roundiili, three-cell'd and 

 three valv'd. 



The Seeds or nuts two, fomewhat globofe, often but one ar- 

 riving to perfe6lion. 



I. iEscuLUs odlandra. New river Horje 

 Che/nut. 



This often becomes a tree of pretty large fize. 

 The branches are fniooth and of a greyifli colour. 

 The Waves are pahnated, or compofed of five pretty 



large 



