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green outside, with little raised places all over it. 

 On the branches the bark is light and dark green, 

 red, white and yellow, with a great number of small 

 rings, and some large rings where branches had been. 



" The leaf of this tree is about six inches long and 

 four inches wide. In summer the leaf has a light, 

 delicate green color, and in autumn it turns to a deli- 

 cate yellow with red spots. The tree has a great 

 many leaves, and they are large for a small tree. 

 They grow opposite, never more than two in a place, 

 and where there was a pair of leaves last year there 

 is a branch this year, and leaves are growing on it. 

 All the leaves have either three, five or seven veins 

 close to the stem, and many veinlets grow in all di- 

 rections from these, making a net-veined leaf. The 

 margin of the leaf is doubly serrate, and the apex is 

 very sharp. The lobes are sharp and the sinuses are 

 rounded at the base. 



" The seeds grow in large clusters of forty or more. 

 The clusters hang downward twined in among the 

 leaves. In the spring the tree has a flower to every 

 seed. When the blossom falls off the seed begins to 

 form, and it is the same color as the leaf, and in 

 autumn it turns yellow and falls off. The seed is in the 

 shape of a half ball, and is an eighth of an inch in 

 diameter. It has a wing an inch long and quarter 

 of an inch wide, and it is net-veined. After the out- 



