. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. 2 A 354 Platanus occidentalis. Linn. WESTERN PLANE. Platanus occidentalis, AVill. sp. pi. iv. Diet. No. du Hamel ii. p. 5. Button-wood, Cotton tree, Amer. The specific characters of the Occidental Plane, according to Willdenow, areleaves five-angled, obsoletely lobed, dentate, wedge-shaped at the base, the undersurface downy. WESTERN PLANE. 855 In treating of trees which, like the Planes, resembleeach other in magnitude, form, and general appearance,and in which this resemblance is so obvious as ofte
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. 2 A 354 Platanus occidentalis. Linn. WESTERN PLANE. Platanus occidentalis, AVill. sp. pi. iv. Diet. No. du Hamel ii. p. 5. Button-wood, Cotton tree, Amer. The specific characters of the Occidental Plane, according to Willdenow, areleaves five-angled, obsoletely lobed, dentate, wedge-shaped at the base, the undersurface downy. WESTERN PLANE. 855 In treating of trees which, like the Planes, resembleeach other in magnitude, form, and general appearance,and in which this resemblance is so obvious as often tocause them to be confounded together, it seems neces-sary to point out the discriminating characters by whichthe one species can always be distinguished from the the Oriental Plane, fig. 1, the leaves are smaller andmuch more deeply lobed, or divided into segments, thanin the Western tree, fig. 2, and the petioles of the leaves,
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