. Getting acquainted with the trees . Trees. Sycamore maple blossoms The Norway maple is botanically Acer plata- noides, really meaning plane-like maple, from the similarity of its leaves to those of the European plane. The sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-plat- anus, which, being translated, means that old Linnjeus thought it a sort of false plane-like maple. Both are European species, but both are far more familiar, as street and lawn trees, to us dwellers in cities than are many of our purely American species. There is a little difference in the bark of the two, and the leaves of the syca- mor
. Getting acquainted with the trees . Trees. Sycamore maple blossoms The Norway maple is botanically Acer plata- noides, really meaning plane-like maple, from the similarity of its leaves to those of the European plane. The sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-plat- anus, which, being translated, means that old Linnjeus thought it a sort of false plane-like maple. Both are European species, but both are far more familiar, as street and lawn trees, to us dwellers in cities than are many of our purely American species. There is a little difference in the bark of the two, and the leaves of the syca- more, while almost identical in form, are darker IS. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace), 1859-1948. New York : The Outlook Co.
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