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why I disb ind of P says:—“That which is called the Maple-leaved Plane 
other perhaps some of your oi aw mm will zaa “ns is “certainly a seminal varie ty. of the Eastern Plan ie, for 
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rows > what nurserymen agit “ stools” of Plane Pea several times.” He then goes on to say—“The 
$ d by my grandfa ther about the year 1780. aa Spanish Plane has larger leaves than vi of the other 
wale nd cor phe a few species gat red ae of Hai rows on sted of stools of the ‘ Occidental | sorts, which are more divided th ian tho: bs the Occi- 
Fungi, mn a The beautiful Marasmius hematoce- | Plane,” = otl a - the “ Oriental se ee least | dental Plane, b 
hee yy instance, with its bright tawny-red pileus, | those e the es given to them. Wher a yo outh I have received be both tk Varieties from Franee, one 
igid, threndtike $ anes i This Wariner (of tis Ovalni s strong al b fetid: Od uae oe deseripti 
at home in the West Indies and the warmer eaves were enormous, ut macrophylla ; they ca e with Miller’s description most 
we a aoe Amerie appeare ed last summer at Kew | very slightly lobed and Foto circular, y Loudon makes P, acerifolia and P, hispanica 
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curious | of the preceding year gman died ar three ieties of P. orientalis. Whatever 
New H olland = ted | fourths of their growth in spring, I remember en- the origin of the P. pon sy whether of France or 
Aseröe, from i eit and we ae gathered | deavouring to form into standards the aon ng trees| Spain, or one of “natural selection, ing “ 
bundance a a tebyicat Stilbum. © Several | raised by layers from the stools, as thei z foliaga was so | Darwin, or a hybrid, it forms the type of a vigorous 
Foren from other gardens, | grand, but never could succee two or three hot | race, having a most remarkable characteristic, viZ., & 
a in the cases just mentioned and many others the | summers Erga onh other I had hopes "buti iame- | readiness to strike. from cuttings which goes through 
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its varieties, yet scarcely one in a hun ý 
while of the ohare a any fail. 
Th nere ry many fine trees of the Oriental 
ane in London; I think 
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pe ‘it i is doubtful whether age can in any case eS See Bhs elir af 
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the village of Albury, are some remark- 
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i ag ed as Meech ” whie aw Aii oe aid, tate fine trees. Of the Ma aved 
Pieni Hstration, ‘though r of kotiu dieis or fal Aere ta age Plane there 
seems perm ntly esta blished a seater, us, like t the are many large trees i ndon, even 
little Helix f the city; I think I remember seeing 
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Agaricus mb iit pa derives its name from the â 
aton Ta swollen in the middle, like that of an of the aty: At Aloe BRT 
Saffron Walden, are some ey anny 
trees of this kind, and 
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a of h almost pure Pnie “a in the Noe aas 
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pa and is waither pee with a kind of eet or | 
+ pee aa Sere scattered fibrous scales ‘ The Phen nae tgs 
is firm at first with delicate silky t beat: but > 
at length hollow ia fur aho d with a distinct erect of the Ma aple-leaved Plan pa oer of 
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we have received it from South America, where it LA ATANUS Eta i inang et Be 
occasionally occurs amongs es in 1. P: acerifolia palmata, much palmated with h laivana more 
pubescent than those of P. orientalis, growth more erect. 
ee $ 2. P. acerifolia palmata superba, with much lar 
nner Oa iis U a noaa T ian No 2, vory doopiy paliated row mose spree 
aA. in its truest form, whether it be Mi or of a more or S-P. yr hy cern j leaves nearly entire; habit. 
E - less decided yellow, as the characters are tie ii same in erect, onee, and very hardy and vigorous, likely to 
either case. Pa ge vg hee pa the 
A RR and yellow apk however, frequently , but of much larger growth ; 
occurs in stoves whi ch has been confounded with it, seem probable that the Maple-leaved: 
: whic of A. elypeolarius or a distinct Plane can be a hybrid between ental 
era This is ah red in the Flora Danica, and Occidental Planes, because the has never made 
deserves a a closer study than it has yet received, y progress in this country towards a seed. 
Agaric must be regarded rather stat Willdenow as his‘authority for its 
as an object of curiosity than i in any other h a It is name of a and an eminent botanist. has- 
too small and thin, even n posin g it, safe, to make | g that it may be a species or variety 
A it an object of much con ation, ow- the south of perhaps Spain, as the name of P. 
ever, who has more especialy in in e eye the plant of given to a variety ‘identical with it 
Bulliard, which differs from in having a hemi- would to justi ee ee 
: p anei Sm k peaks Stake the Beat of AGARICUS ORPASTIE hylla. This appears to mo to t be the pem eP. 
i procerus in y, w sirg e o me to iety -of P. 
f our Fungi, and like b may be used for the table Natural size. CR ee T permission fror fun ee Scottish acerifolia. called by Miller and Loudon P. hispanica, š 
2 2 a ae it 5 certain that | simka out diate a, and 
ard's plant is really the same, the Onion-stemmed | came young shoots a ne awe lobed, butte eis tohlinrestent 
i Agaric jf used at all should be used with caution, The | About 20 opie 30 years ago, I used ers to ra ltogres with Mil Migr ei eee 
5 mt grows on mould arising from the decom- | receive from Mr. Char! Charlwood seeds of Platanus occi- Thos. Rivers. 
; m of'animal and vegetable substances, and is | dentalis, imported from the United States ; amr pE 
in the air, though Bulliard’s plant, like the me Lee ‘with the characters of my gra — i 
one we have y ete is in France confined to stoves. | Occidental and Sir William Hooker, = in L 2 
Vittadini, indeed, quotes the figures of Bolton and communication, aes We often raise young piant of | (Concluded from p. 23). 
; Sowerby; but it is clear from his description that Se Ea Siaiis tro m American seed, but the annual 
has never seen Seen precisely what they represent, M, J. B. | shoots are killed down wn every winter.’ 
eee i believe that this Plane never has existed in } i 
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We THE LONDON PLANE TREES. tioned by some suntan as miie large tri 
K HEN I visit London in summer I always enee Ga o at Kew and elsewhere, a th mentioned by 
4 — in the luxuriant and happy state the Plane Miller in his Dictionary (fol. 1759) were not.the true | 
: g to be in as compared with other London 
r guises but of little Rea rs ero they; The row of Planes I have alluded to above, wrt be warmed with water 
5g e for fine trees may in the confined back yards | near the P, occidentalis na and A “ 
and courts of the City as well a cathe West End. It is | Planes,"@ found to be most v 
ever, in the -shoots in 
ee o ntal | to be peciés-or vat ide 
occidentalis) exists in the | with the Platanus hispanics of | ow 
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