156 



SYCAMORE 



Fig. 73. Sycamore, Acer pseudoplatanus, p. 155 (D). 



** Two buds in a pair at the tip of the 

 twig, the central termination of the shoot 

 usually absent ; buds on the lower parts 

 small ; bud-scales green with red or brown 

 margin, and rather loosely imbricated. 

 Leaf-scar lunate-crescentic with one trans- 

 versely extended linear group of fused 

 leaf -trace bundles. Lenticels distinct but 

 not large. 



