. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. i>86 LEITNERIACEAE. Vol. i. Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coulter. Sweet Fern. Fern-gale. Fig. 1438. Liquidambar peregrina L. Sp. PI. 999. 1753. Myrica asplenifolia L. Sp. PI. 1024. 1753. Liquidambar asplenifolia L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 1418. 1763. C. asplenifolia Gaertn. ;& Sem. 2: 58. 1791. C. peregrina Coulter, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 127. 1894. A shrub,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. i>86 LEITNERIACEAE. Vol. i. Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coulter. Sweet Fern. Fern-gale. Fig. 1438. Liquidambar peregrina L. Sp. PI. 999. 1753. Myrica asplenifolia L. Sp. PI. 1024. 1753. Liquidambar asplenifolia L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 1418. 1763. C. asplenifolia Gaertn. ;& Sem. 2: 58. 1791. C. peregrina Coulter, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 127. 1894. A shrub, i°~3° tall, the branches erect or spread- ing. Leaves' linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate in outline, short-petioled, obtuse or subacute at the apex, deeply pinnatifid into numerous oblique rounded entire or sparingly dentate lobes, 3'-6' long, i'-i' wide, fragrant when crushed, the sinuses very nar- row; stipules semi-cordate, mostly deciduous; stami- nate aments clustered at the ends of the branches, 1' or less long, their bracts feniform, acute; pistillate aments bur-like in subulate bractlets longer than the light brown, shining, striate, obtuse nut. In dry soil, especially on hill-sides, Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan, south to North Carolina, Indiana and Michigan. Ascends to 2000 ft. in Virginia. Meadow- or shrubby-fern. Sweet-bush or -ferry. Fern- or spleen- wort-bush. Canada sweet-gale. April-May. Family 4. LEITNERIACEAE Drude, Phanerog. 407. 1879. Cork-wood Family. Dioecious shrubs or small trees, with large entire petioled alternate exstipulate (or sometimes stipulate?) leaves, and flowers of both sexes in aments formed at the end of the season, which expand before the leaves. Staminate flowers with no perianth; stamens 3-12, inserted on the receptacle; filaments short, distinct; anthers oblong, erect, 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Pistillate, flqwers with a solitary i-celled ovary, subtended by 3 or 4 minute glandular-lacerate 'bract- lets ;
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