THE PLANE. 



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LEAF STALK CUT TO SHOW THE BUD THAT WAS HIDDEN IN IT. 



on the Plane. It differs also from the Elm in its looser carriage, 

 and the freedom with which its branches tend, with many a 

 twist and curve, in every direction. The twigs of one year's 

 growth are olive-green, the older ones dark brown inclining to 

 red, the branches, dark grey. An enlarged joint makes the 

 junction of a year-old shoot with the twig conspicuous. The 

 trunk is cylindrical and massive, and covered with fine grey bark, 

 which Hakes of] in vertical layers, exposing the smooth surface of 

 the inner hark, where the grey colour is tinged with yellow. 



Tllh LEAF AND BUDS. 



In summer-time, when in the axil between leaf-stalk and twig 

 most trees are already showing next year's buds, the Plane keeps 

 them M.iltiK hidden away al the base oi the leaf-stalk. There they 



