Abstract
IN company with many other prosperous exotics, the so-called 'sycamore' has lived for many, generations in Great Britain under a false name, Sycamore is an attractive name, but as applied to this tree it is both incorrect and misleading: the term Acer pseudoplatanus is equally so. The word 'sycamore', spelt by the early botanists 'sycomore', is the name for a fig tree, very well described by Pliny, 69–115 A.D. The botanical term Acer pseudoplatanus is inaccurate, as in no respect can the sycamore be considered a spurious or, in modern phraseology, ersatz tree. The only excuse which can be put forward is that the leaf resembles the plane in its shade of green, and also in its shape. If this reason be sufficient, then most certainly the botanical name for the wych elm should be Ulmus pseudo-corylus, since the resemblance between the leaf of the wych elm and that of the hazel (Corylus avellana) is greater. Four authorities of very different dates all bear witness to this long-standing mistake.
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