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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 
fomething refemble the Silver-leaved Maple, but are 
not fo large, nor deeply lobed; 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- 
able quantity, of the fap of this and the Silver-leaved 
Maple; and though thefe have generally been pre- 
ferred, yet all our Maples yield a fap which affords a 
pretty good fugar. 
i S "C ULUS, 
THE HORSE-CHESNUT-TREE. 
Clafs 7. Order x. Heptandria Monogynia. 
T HE Empalement is of one leaf, tubulous, fmall and five- 
toothed. 
The Corolla confifts of five petals, roundifh, waved with a plait- 
ed margin, plane, fpreading, unequally coloured, and inferr- 
ed by narrow claws into the calyx. 
The Filaments are feven (fometimes eight) awl-fhaped, the 
length of the corolla, and declined. The Antherce riling. 
The Germen is roundifh, ending in an awl fh aped Style. The 
Stigma fharp pointed. 
The Seed-veJJel a capfule, coriaceous, roundifh, three-cell’d and 
three vaiv’d. 
The Seeds or nuts two, fomewhat globofe, often but one ar- 
riving to perfe&ion. 
x. Isculus ocTandra. Neva river Horfe 
Chefuut . 
This often becomes a tree of pretty large fize. 
The branches are fmooth and of a greyifh colour. 
The leaves are palmated, or compofed of five pretty 
large 
