OCTANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
185 
Swamp Maple, Red Maple, Scarlet Maple, 
A common-sized tree with red flowers and seeds; common. 
April, May. 
Q. A. leaves palmate. 5-lobed, acuminate-serrate, dasycarpum. 
pubescent underneath, and glaucous almost to 
whiteness ; flowers in clustered umbels j germs 
tomentose. — Sp, FI, 
A. eriocarpum, Mich. f. 
A. tomentosum, Hort. paris. 
Icon. Mich. Arb. forest, vol. £. p. £05. t. 13. 
Silver-leaved Majile. White Maple. Soft Maple, 
A large tree with greenish-yellow flowers and seeds. On the 
banks of the Schuylkill, and elsewhere ; common. April, May. 
3. A. leaves pinnate and ternate, unequally ser- Neguirdo. 
rate flowers dioicous — Sp. PL 
Icon. Mich. Arbr. forest, vol. 2. p. 247. t. 18. 
Box Elder. Jish-leaved Maple. 
A very large tree, not so common as No. 1, and No. 2. On 
the Schuylkill, near the falls, east side, and elsewhere. May, 
June. 
ORDER II. DIGYNIA. 
190. CHRYSOSPLENIUM. Gen. pi. 763. (Saxifrage.) 
Calix superior, 4 or 5 cleft, coloured. Co- 
rolla none. Capsule birostrate, 1 -celled, 
many- seeded. 
1. C. leaves opposite, subrotund, narrowed at theo^sitiio- 
base into a petiole, very smootli, cvmate.—WUld. ’ 
Icon. FI. Dan. 365. Engl. Bot. 490. 
Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage. 
A subaquatic plant with very inconspicuous flowers. Very 
rare in this neighbourhood. I have only found it in a rivulet 
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