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PLANE 



Bark not olive-grey nor exfoliating 

 large thin plates leaving parti- 

 coloured patches; but casting slowly 

 smaller or larger scales of various 

 kinds, when old. 



Fig. 80. Plane: scaly bark (Irv). 



Evergreen tree, often shrubby in 

 habit, with dark green linear leaves, 

 and casting reddish rough scaly 

 plates from the old trunks. 



