. ods. When the tree is old, how-ever, the epidermis of the trunk, like that of theliquidambar, and white oak, becomes brown,chapped, and deeply furrowed. The ordinarylieight of this species does not exceed fifty orsixty feet: but in favourable situations, as in the maple suximps in New Jerseyand Permsylvania, it often attains a height of seventy or eighty feet, with a trunkthree or four feet in diameter. The blossoms of this tree are the first that an-nounce the return of spring. It flowers near St. Marys, in Georgia, from the2(Jth
. ods. When the tree is old, how-ever, the epidermis of the trunk, like that of theliquidambar, and white oak, becomes brown,chapped, and deeply furrowed. The ordinarylieight of this species does not exceed fifty orsixty feet: but in favourable situations, as in the maple suximps in New Jerseyand Permsylvania, it often attains a height of seventy or eighty feet, with a trunkthree or four feet in diameter. The blossoms of this tree are the first that an-nounce the return of spring. It flowers near St. Marys, in Georgia, from the2(Jth to the last of February, and five or six weeks later near Philadelphia andNew York. The flowers, which are of a bcautifnl purple or deep-red, unfoldmore than a fortnight before the leaves. They are small, aggregate, and aresituated at the extremity of the branches. The fruit is suspended by long, flex-ible peduncles, and is of the same hue of the flowers; though it varies in sizeand in the intensity of its colouring, according to the exposure and dampness of. RED-FLOWERED MAPLE. 99 the soil. The keys and seeds are at least one half smaller than those of theAcer eriocarpum, and ripen two or three weeks earlier. The leaves are alsosmaller than those of that species, and in some respects resemble them. Theyare glaucous and whitish underneath; palmated or divided into three moderatelyacuminate lobes, irregularly toothed; but they are longer than they are broad,usually rounded at the base, with two small lobes, or large teeth below the lat-eral lobes. The extremities of this tree, which are formed by numerous twigsunited at the base, and when garnished with flowers and fruit of a vegetation has generally begun to reviv^e, presents a very singular andgrand appearance. Varieties. The Acer rubrum has long been confounded by British authorswith the Acer eriocarpum; but whether they are only varieties or races of thesame species, or not, there is a marked difference betw
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