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THe great Maple is a beautifull and high tree, with a barke of a meane smoothnesse: the sub∣stance of the wood is tender and easie to worke on; it sendeth forth on euery side very many goodly boughes and branches, which make an excellent shadow against the heate of the Sun; vpon
which are great, broad, and cornered leaues, much like to those of the Vine, hanging by long red∣dish stalks: the floures hang by clusters, of a whitish greene colour; after them commeth vp long fruit fastened together by couples, one right against another, with kernels bumping out 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the place in which they are combined: in all the other parts flat and thin like vnto parchment, or resembling the innermost wings of grashoppers: the kernels be white and little.
2 There is a small Maple which doth oftentimes come to the bignes of a tree, but most com∣monly it groweth low after the maner of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉: the barke of the young shoots hereof is likewise smooth; the substance of the wood is white, and easie to be wrought on: the leaues are cornered like those of the former, slippery, and fastened with a reddish stalke, but much lesser, very like in big∣nes, and smoothnes to the leafe of Sanicle, but that the cuts are deeper: the floures be as those of the former, greene, yet not growing in clusters, but vpon spoked roundles: the fruit standeth by two and two vpon a stem or foot-stalke.