. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Acer plalanoides, THE PLATANUS-LIKE MAPLE. Synonymes. Acer plalanoides, Erablfi de Norvege, Spitz-Ahorn, Spitzblattriger Ahorn, Acpro riccio, Sicomoro i'also, Platuno di Norvegiu, Norway Alaple, ' LiNN^us, Species Plantarura. * De , Prodromus. MicHAUx, North American Sylva. Loudon, Arbo
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. Acer plalanoides, THE PLATANUS-LIKE MAPLE. Synonymes. Acer plalanoides, Erablfi de Norvege, Spitz-Ahorn, Spitzblattriger Ahorn, Acpro riccio, Sicomoro i'also, Platuno di Norvegiu, Norway Alaple, ' LiNN^us, Species Plantarura. * De , Prodromus. MicHAUx, North American Sylva. Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. Seluy, British Forest Trees, France. Germany. Italy. Britain and Derivaliona. The rfpecific name is derived from tlie Latin, ;i, a plane-tree, and tlie Greek, eidos, form, from tlio resemblance which the leaves of this tree bear to those of the Platanus orlentalis. Engravings. Michaiix, North American Sylva, pi. 'M ; Selby, British Forest Trees, pp. 23 et 20; Loudon, Arboretnm Hrl- lannicum, i., figurea 119, pp. 442 el 413, et v. pi. 29; and the figures below. Sjiecific Characters. Leaves cordate, smooth, 5-lobed. Lobes acuminated, with a few coarse, acute teeth. Corymbs stallied, erectish, and, as well as the fruit, smooth ; fruit with divaricated wings.—Don, Mil- ler's Diet. Description. I HE Acer platanoides is a handsome tree, of tlie first rank. Its _^ _ general appearance, at a distan-^e, is liive the Acer pseiido-platanus, hut on a nearer approach, the leaves are found of a smoother and finer texture. The trunk is some- what shorter than that of the sycamore, and the tree seldom exceeds sixty or seventy feet in height. The roots extend considerably, both laterally and downwards. The bark is green on the young shoots, but it afterwards becomes of a reddish-broAvn. dotted with white spots; that of the trunk is brown, and somewhat cracked. The buds are large and red in autumn, becoming of a still darker hue in the course of tl
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