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The Germen are many, difpofed in a globe and ending in awl- 



lhaped St'jleSy with recurved Stigmas. 

 The Seed-veJJel none. But a globofe receptacle. 

 The Seeds are oblong, angular and clubbed, crowned by the 



permanent ftyle, and with a capillary pappus adhering at the 



bafe. 



OhJ, 1 am in doubt with regard to the petals. 



We have^ i$ith us^ but one Species, viz* 



Pl A T A N us occidentalis. American Plane-Tree^ 

 or Large Button Wood. 



This grows common by creeks and river fides in 

 many parts of America. It is of quick growth, and 

 often becomes a large tree of fixty or feventy feet 

 in height and above three feet in diameter, fending 

 off but few long, diverging branches, which toge- 

 ther with the upper part of the trunk, are generally 

 Covered with a fmoothifli bark, annually, or often 

 renewed, and falling off in thin plates or fcales. 

 The leaves are broad, and cut into angles, or lobed ; 

 having feveral acute indentures on their borders, of 

 a light green on their upper fide, but paler, and a 

 little wooly underiueath ; with long footftalks, and 

 placed alternately. The flowers are produced in 

 round pendulous balls, of near an inch in diameter, 

 upon very long footftalks. This is fometimes fawed 

 into boards, and has been much ufed of late by our 

 cavd-makers, for card-boards or backs* 



P O P U L U S. 



The P P L A R - T R E 



Clafs 22. Order 7. Dioecia Odandria. 



nPHE Flowers fet Mak and Female on difFerent Plants, 

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O The 



