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Sweet Gum, Star-Leaved or Red Gum, Bilsted, Alli- 

 gator Tree or Liquidambar {Liquidambar Styraciflua) 



A tall tree up to 150 feet high of low, moist woods, re- 

 markable for the corky ridges on its bark, and the unsplit- 

 able nature, of its weak, warping, perishable timber. 



Heart-wood reddish brown, sap white; heavy, weighing 

 37 lbs. to cubic foot. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long. Mass. to 

 Mo. and south to Gulf. 



Sycamore, Plane Tree, Buttonball or Buttonwood 

 {Platanus occidentalis) 



One of the largest of our trees; up to 140 feet high; com- 

 monly hollow. Wood, light brownish, weak; hard to split; 

 Jieavy for its strength. A cubic foot weighs 35 lbs. Little 



