C. Fruit of previous yeat 



THE SYCAMORE {Phuonus orridentalh) 

 The broad leaf is strongly veined and toothed, yellow green with a pale lining. Its petiole has a conical hollow base which 

 protects and conceals the growing bud. Winter shows'the bud and its encircling leaf scar. The flowers are in heads, stam.nate 

 dark red, lateral ; pistillate greenish red and terminal. They open in May with the new leaves. The stipules torm a sneara 

 with a leaf-like frill around the top. The seed balls dangle on flexible stems. A central, bonv cone is "'^"'"^V ^ kIT.™ 

 seeds, each flying away on a hairy parachute. Sycamore bark is reddish brown on the lower part of the trunk, and broken 

 into small plates. Above and on the limbs it comes off in thin, irregula 

 or white under-bark. This gives the tree a mottled and weird appearance, especially in winter 



flakes of considerable size, exposing the pale-green 



