. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. SYCAMORE. BUTTONWOOD. BUTTON-BALL TREE. Plafanus occldentalis Fig. 265. Branchlet bearing mature leaves and fruit, i ; fruiting head separating, with scatteredakenes and hairs, 2 ; branchlet from vigorous shoot showing stipules, 3 ; branchlet in winter, 4 ;base of petiole showing cup-shape nature, 5. 266. Trunk of a large isolated tree, western New York. 267. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. Handbook of Trkks of tiik XoirniERN States and Can. 229 I larfjost1 forests,vcr Ohios to
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. SYCAMORE. BUTTONWOOD. BUTTON-BALL TREE. Plafanus occldentalis Fig. 265. Branchlet bearing mature leaves and fruit, i ; fruiting head separating, with scatteredakenes and hairs, 2 ; branchlet from vigorous shoot showing stipules, 3 ; branchlet in winter, 4 ;base of petiole showing cup-shape nature, 5. 266. Trunk of a large isolated tree, western New York. 267. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. Handbook of Trkks of tiik XoirniERN States and Can. 229 I larfjost1 forests,vcr Ohios to tlioliundnMl ilus stately tree is coiisuier^d V.(Icfidiioiis trtH of till Xortli Aincric;iIn the rieli huttoiii-Iaii(h .if llic Inand tlie .Missisdppi valhvs it of one hundred and fifty to onand seventy-five ft. and its lniid< is some-times ten or eleven ft. in diameter ahovo itstapering base. Tiie trunk eommonly dividesinto two or three large secondary trunks, whieliraise its irregular or rounded head far abovethe tops of most of the neighboring trees; orit may have a single columnar trunk of greatheight but often cuived or leaning. A striking featu
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