AUTUMNAL LEAVES. 



appearance as of yellow stripes upon the leaf. 

 At other times the whole of one lobe it may be 

 the upper one of the leaf will become suffused 

 with a fine orange colour upon which a glow of 

 light red may be cast, whilst the rest of the lobes 

 are either green or green and yellow- veined. 

 Sometimes two or more lobes are thus affected, 

 or one may be orange and reddish orange and 

 another, or others, green, or russet. Again the 

 middle of a lobe or the middle of the leaf only 

 may be dyed with orange or yellow over an 

 irregular space, whilst all the tissue outside and 

 around it may be still of the normal green. 

 Variations from all these species of colouring is 

 provided by the entire surface being mottled and 

 splashed and spotted and stained with golden 

 brown, orange, light red, russet and green, whilst 

 upon the same tree which bears all the varieties 

 that have been enumerated we may find leaves un- 

 touched by the faintest hue of autumn colouring. 

 In speaking of the two species of Plane which 

 grow in this country, Gilpin calls them ' noble 

 trees.' Of the Western Plane, which came to us 

 from America a tree which, though only natu- 



