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PLATANACEvE. 



Platanus occidentalis. Linn. 



WESTERN PLANE. 



Platanus occidentalis, 



AVill. sp. pi. iv. 495. 

 Mill. Diet. No. n. 

 Nov. du Hamel ii. p. 5. 



Button-wood, Cotton tree, Amer. 



The specific characters of the Occidental Plane, according to Willdenow, are 

 leaves five-angled, obsoletely lobed, dentate, wedge-shaped at the base, the under 

 surface downy. 



