. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 4i6 The Plane Tree Family I. SYCAMORE — Platanus occidentalis Linnaeus This very large tree, ako known as the Plane tree, Button wood, Button-ball tree, and Water beech, occurs from Maine and Ontario south to Florida, and westward to Nebraska and Texas. It is a frequent tree of low, rich lands, bor- dering streams. Its greatest development is attained in the valleys of the central States, often reaching a height of 55 met
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 4i6 The Plane Tree Family I. SYCAMORE — Platanus occidentalis Linnaeus This very large tree, ako known as the Plane tree, Button wood, Button-ball tree, and Water beech, occurs from Maine and Ontario south to Florida, and westward to Nebraska and Texas. It is a frequent tree of low, rich lands, bor- dering streams. Its greatest development is attained in the valleys of the central States, often reaching a height of 55 meters, with a trunk diameter of meters. The trunk is often branched from near the base into several smaller trunks, or is greatly reduced by the very large, promi- nently outspreading branches, forming an irregular, open, and very broad head; on the edges of streams the trunk is often re- clining or arching far out over the water, and then develops one or more tree-like, upright branches; in the east it is usually erect, and branched only above. The bark of old trees is 5 to 7 cm. thick, shallowly furrowed into broad ridges, which are broken up into thin plates of a dark brown color; on younger trunks and branches the bark is quite thin and spontaneously peels off into large, thin plates, exposing a smooth, Ught greenish gray inner layer. The twigs are rather stout; when young they are coated with pale hairs, but soon become smooth, Fig. biownish, and finaUy Hght gray. The win- ter buds are stout and blunt, about 10 mm. long. The leaves are orbicular in outline, 10 to 20 cm. across, 3-to 5-lobed, the lobes broad, long-pointed, and more or less toothed, the teeth separated by shallow rounded sinuses; they are trun- cate, ^heart-shaped, or rarely wedge-shaped at the base, very woolly when unfold- ing, but soon become smooth, except on the veins beneath, light green and firm; the stout leaf-stalk is one fourth to one third the length of the blade; the stipules a
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