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like the tricolor, with red, green, and yellow. 

 An appearance of this kind is fo contrary to 

 nature's ufual mode of colouring the leaves 

 of foreft-trees ; that I fhould rather fufpect, 

 Kempfer faw it, either when the leaves were 

 in the wane, or blafted, or in fome other un- 

 natural flate. 



I may add, with regard to the occidental 

 plane j and indeed, I believe, with regard to 

 both the trees of this fpecies, that their fum- 

 mer leaf wears fo light a hue, as to mix 

 ill with the foliage of the oak, the elm, and 

 other trees. I have feen them on the fkirts 

 of a plantation, forming, during the fummer, 

 a difagreeable fpot. In autumn, their leaves 

 receive a mellow tint, which harmonizes very 

 well with the waning colours of the wood I 

 have heard of other varieties of thefe foreign 

 planes ; but if there are, I am unacquainted 

 with them. 



One fingularity of this tree may be men- 

 tioned, which I believe runs through all it's 

 varieties. The ftem of every leaf forms, at it's 

 infertion into the fpray, a little calix, or cup, 

 which covers, and defends the bud of the 

 fucceeding year. In autumn you eafily difcover 

 it by pulling off a decaying leaf. 



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