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 

 transversely extended linear group of 

 fused leaf-trace bundles. Lenticels dis- 

 tinct but not large. 



