. Acer macrophylliim, THE LARGE-LEAVED MAPLE. Synonymes. Acer macrophyllum, Erable a grandes feuilles,Grossblattriger Ahorn,Large-leaved IMaple, C De Caxdolle, Prodromus. Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana. Don, Millers Dictionary. LocDOxN, Arboretum Bntannicum.^^ NuTTALL, North American S3-lva. France. Germany. Britain and Anglo-America. Derirations. The specific name is derived from the Greek macros, great, ^niphulos, a leaf. The other names are transla-tions of the Iwtanic one. Etigrating-. Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana, pi. 3
. Acer macrophylliim, THE LARGE-LEAVED MAPLE. Synonymes. Acer macrophyllum, Erable a grandes feuilles,Grossblattriger Ahorn,Large-leaved IMaple, C De Caxdolle, Prodromus. Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana. Don, Millers Dictionary. LocDOxN, Arboretum Bntannicum.^^ NuTTALL, North American S3-lva. France. Germany. Britain and Anglo-America. Derirations. The specific name is derived from the Greek macros, great, ^niphulos, a leaf. The other names are transla-tions of the Iwtanic one. Etigrating-. Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana, pi. 3S; Xuitall, North American Sylva, pi. —; Loudon, Arboretum Bri-tannicum, !., figures 117 el US, pp. 43S to 441, et v. pi. 2S; and the figures below. Specific Characters. Leaves digitately 5-lobed, with roimdcd recesses. Lobes somewhat 3-lobed, repandlytoothed, pubescent beneath, racemes compound, erect. Stamens 9, with hairy filaments. Ovaries veryh-iivy.—Bon, 3Iilkrs Description. ?^HE Large-leaved Ma- ¥i H H i^ pie is one of the most |)? U i^ graceful of trees in the ^_ ^fe^^^ra country it inhabits, va-rying from forty to ninety feet in height, andfrom two to five feet or more in diameter. Thetrunk is covered with a rough, brown bark, andthe branches are wide and spreading. Theleaves vary much in size, and also in the mannerin which they are lobed. Some are cut nearlyto the base, so as almost to merit the appellationof palmate, while others are not more deeply cutthan those of the Acer platanoides. The largest-,sized leaves are nearly a foot broad. The flow-ers are of a greenish-yellow, and very fragrant,appearing in April and May. The fruit is hispid,with elongated, slightly diverging, glabrouswings. Geography and History. The Acer macrophyllum is a native of the north-west coast of North America. It is found exclusively in woody, mountainousregions along the sea-coast, between forty and fifty degrees of latitude, and onthe great rapids of the r
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