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and are pale and glaucous underneath. The flowers form long pendent clusters, 'file eight 

 stamens insert on a downy disk. The fruit has two wings that are very close together. 



FLOWERS: April and May. 



RANGE: France, in large parks and in forests. 



NOMENCLATURE. German, der bergahorn. English, the great maple. Italian, 

 acero di montagna. Tatar, oerga. 



The striped maple, Acer pennsylvanicum, Linn, is remarkable for its decorative 

 bark. The trunk is about thirty feet tall. It's straight, and it's green mottled with white. The 

 leaves are large, terminate in three points, and are unevenly denticulate on the margins. 

 The flowers form long pendent clusters. There are eight stamens that have short 

 filaments. The fruit has two wings that are somewhat spread apart and are slightly 

 convex. 



FLOWERS: in April and May. 



RANGE: North America; acclimatized in almost all of Europe. 



The ash-leaved maple, Acer negundo, Wild., is a tree that grows about forty feet 

 high. It has bushy foliage, and its bark is smooth when the tree is young. The leaves are 

 winged. They have five oval leaflets that are pointed and dentate. The flowers are 

 dioecious. The female flowers are grouped in pendent clusters. The male flowers have 

 four, sometimes five stamens and are borne on long peduncles. The capsules or samaras 

 are small. 



FLOWERS: in April. 



RANGE: North America; naturalized in France and in England. 

 NOMENCLATURE. German, der aechenahorhn. English, the ash-leaved maple. 



