. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. Nat. Orel. Linn. Syst. PolygamiaMonceckc. Acer pseudo-platanus. SYCAMORE, OR GREAT MAPLE. Acer pseuclo-jrfcdanus Linn. sp. pi. Mill. i. Eng. Flor. ii. Arb. Brit. p. 413. Plane-tree. Scotland. The specific characters of this species may be stated as follows : leaves palmate,with five acuminated unequally serrated lobes. Racemes pendulous, rather com-pound, with the rachis and filaments of the stamens hairy; fruit or capsules smooth,with two, sometimes three, large diverging wings
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. Nat. Orel. Linn. Syst. PolygamiaMonceckc. Acer pseudo-platanus. SYCAMORE, OR GREAT MAPLE. Acer pseuclo-jrfcdanus Linn. sp. pi. Mill. i. Eng. Flor. ii. Arb. Brit. p. 413. Plane-tree. Scotland. The specific characters of this species may be stated as follows : leaves palmate,with five acuminated unequally serrated lobes. Racemes pendulous, rather com-pound, with the rachis and filaments of the stamens hairy; fruit or capsules smooth,with two, sometimes three, large diverging wings. THE SYCAMORE, OR GREAT MAPLE. 15. Frequently as we hearthe Sycamore abused asnot worth growing for thevalue of its timber, anddevoid, as an ornamentaltree, of beauty of outlineand picturesque effect, wenevertheless agree withSir Lauder* thatit is certainly a nobletree. Vying in point ofmagnitude, with the oak,the ash, and other treesof the first rank, it pre-sents a grand unbroken mass of foliage, contrasting well,in appropriate situations, and when judiciously grouped,with trees of a lighter and more airy character, and afford-ing, as Gilpin expresses it, an impenetrable shade. Lau-der well observes, The spring tints of the Sycamore arerich, tender, glowing, and harmonious; in summer its deepgreen hue accords well with its grand and massive form,and the brown and dingy reds of its autumnal tints har-monise well with the mixed grove to which they give afine depth of tone. The colour of the bark is also agree-able to the eye, being of a fine ash grey, frequently brokeninto patches of different hues, by the peeli
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