. The North America sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia [microform] : considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce, to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. BUTTON WOOD OR SYCAMORE. sun, or to firo-hoat, the}' crack and open, and the seeds may then be easily shaken out. They may be sown and treated like seeds of the Pine and Fir tribe; but, unlike them, they lie a year in the ground before coming up.] BUTTONWOOD o
. The North America sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia [microform] : considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce, to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. BUTTON WOOD OR SYCAMORE. sun, or to firo-hoat, the}' crack and open, and the seeds may then be easily shaken out. They may be sown and treated like seeds of the Pine and Fir tribe; but, unlike them, they lie a year in the ground before coming up.] BUTTONWOOD or SYCAMORE. Platanus occidentalis. p. folds lobato-angulosis, ramulis albentibus. Monoccia nionandria. Linn. Ainentaccac. Juss. Among trees with deciduous leaves, none in the temperate zones, either on the Old or the New Continent, equals the dimen- sions of the Planes. The species wdiich grows in the Western world is not less remarkable for its amplitude and for its mag- nificent appearance than the Plane of Asia, whose majestic form and extraordinary size were so much celebrated by the ancients. In the Atlantic States, this tree is commonly known by the name of Buttonwood, and sometimes, in Virginia, by that of Water Beech. On the banks of the Ohio, and in the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, it is most frequently called Sycamore. and by some persons Plane Tree. The French of Canada and of Upper Louisiana give it the name of Cotton Tree. The first of these denominations appears to be the most widely difl'used, and not to be entirely unknown in those districts where the others are habitually employed; for this reason I have adopted it. though a less appropriate appellation than that of Plane Tree. According to my own observations, the Buttonwood does not venture, toward the northeast, beyond Portland, in the latitude of 40° 30'; but farther west, in 7')° of longitude, it is found two degrees farther north, at the extremity of Lake Champlain. Please note that these images ar
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