Chapter IX 



THE BUTTONWOOD, THE TUPELO, AND 

 THE MULBERRIES 



Families Platanaceae, Cornaceae, and Moracae 



THERE is but one genus in the family 

 Plataiiacea, and but one species in tlie 

 genus found growing in the North- 

 eastern States, the buttonwood, or sycamore. 



„ , A larcre tree, 80 to 100 feet his;h, 



Buttonwood, . , "^ . . ^ 



Sycamore, or with an irregular, pictiiresque 



Plane Tree outliiie. The bark breaks off in 



Platamts occidentalis ....,_ . , 



thin, brittle plates at the base of 

 the trunk, and higJier up it is smooth, an olive 

 gree7i. color, and covered with white blotches. 

 The buds are subpetiolar, — that is, they are 

 covered over by the base of the leafstalk through 

 the summer, and concealed eiitirely until the 

 leaf drops off. The leaf -scar is in the shape of 

 a ring around the bud, with prominent bundle- 

 scars ; the arrangement of the leaf-scars is alter- 

 nate. Stipule scars are found on the stems 

 in some places. The buds are conical, sinooth, 



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