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in almost every garden. The medicinal virtues of the cones 
tif cousiderable ; they reside in the little resinous atoms a 
pee which abound Fe r the = of the scales. The hops for the 
eries cultivated on a large scale, in some districts of the middle aa 
northe tateo--<iiartionbaaers in Western New York,—where, it is said, 
they are a profitable crop. The s omegne plant is of so little account, 
that itis is scarcely known except to the 
Oxpier LXV. PLATANA’CEAl. (Puaye-rree Famtty.) 
Trees, with a watery juice, and alternate, petiolate, | d lobed leaves with 
sheathing, <n. stipes — wane hap os are tumid and olen at base, concealing 
the young buds. lower. te and et Saget densely crowded on 
globose receptacles , sires ‘kinda i doaeittitn pre fora enve yendulous on long 
slender peduncles. SrammaTe Fu. Stamens numerous, irregularly mixed with subcla- 
vate scales, densely crowded. PISTILLATE ri. Ovaries numerous, obconic or filiform-cla- 
vate, casggon crowded, mixed with spatulate scales (ahptioe ovaries j style elongated, 
ju te, sti t i 
ear t pex. Fruit a 
Ceous little nut,—the bage surrounded with pappus-like hairs. Seed cylindric-oblong, 
pendulous ; embryo in in the axis of fleshy albumen. 
An Order consi: dth ic character, of course 
of SS 7 A 
1. PLAT’ ANUS, EL. Puane-rree. 
[Greek, Platys, broad ; in allusion to its wide-sp he b h i i foli: £ J] 
1. P. occmenta’us, L. Leaves “roundish-pentagonal, acuminate; 
obscurely palmate-lobed, sinuate-dentate, pubescent beneath. 
Wesrern Puatanus. Button-wood. Sycamore. Plane-tree. 
~—100 feet high, and 2-4 or 5 feet or more, in diameter, with large ghee. J 
ion: and a smoothish eiianeods bark, which exfoliates in broad thinnish plates. 
Leaves 3-6 or 8 inches long, a wider La jong,—the base at first truncate, finally sub- 
cordate, obscurely palma angulate-lobed, unequally sinuate-dentate with the teeth 
acuminate eg oo d i with a hoar branching raga ous pubese ene 1-3 
inches in length, tumid and hollow at Hever covering the y is formed 
and raid ty; what salver-form, shoathive t pres bran- 
ches immediately above the Bey oats limb spreading, foliaceous, coarsely and un- 
equally toothed. Sta: Shwebacite kets oF or globe caters tat pra 2 inches long, deciduous. 
about an inch in diame pend te 
ches long, persistent. Nuds ab third of an inch long, slender, sub , clavate, 
y—the base acute and —— with soborpen ——— us-like hai 
— of streams, road-sides, &c. : d States. Fl. April-May. Fr. 
Obs. This stately Roly Ride Saapr from a very 8 
small oid — tie 
isan feon ie size than other, east of the a Mountains. 
