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The Germen are many, difpofed in a globe and ending in awl- 
fliaped Styles, 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. 
Obf. I am in doubt with regard to the petals. 
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We have , with us, but one Species, viz. 
Platan us occidentals . 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 fmoothiih 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 underneath ; 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 hawed 
into boards, and has been much ufed of late by our 
card-makers, for card-boards or backs. 
P O P U L U S. 
The POPLAR-TREE. 
Clafs 22. Order 7. Dioecia Odtandria, 
'T’HE Flowers are Male and Female on different Plants, 
x * The Male. 
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