This section is from the book "British Wild Flowers In The Four Seasons", by Thomas Moore. Also available from Amazon: British Wild Flowers.
A. campestre: tree; leaves 5-lobed, with obtuse, entire or sinuate lobes; flowers in loose erect corymbs; wings of the carpels diverging horizontally. - Hedges and thickets. Fl. May, June.
A. Pseudo-platamis: tree; leaves larger, 5-lobed, the lobes toothed; flowers in pendent racemes; wings of the carpels parallel or but slightly divergent. - Sycamore. - Hedges and plantations. Fl. May.
 
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