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SYLVAN WINTER. 



nodes appear at irregular distances along the 

 stems or twigs, and are blunt-shaped and some- 

 what conical, as well as being terminal. The 

 shoots are produced, mostly, nearly at right 



Sycamore. 



angles from the stems which bear them. In 

 colour the bark is reddish, but the general appear- 

 ance of the ramification is rugged. 



