. 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. Genus 2. WITCH-HAZEL I. Hamamelis virginiana L. Witch- Hazel. Fig. 2195. Hamamelis virginiana L Sp. PI. 124. 1753. A shrub, or rarely a small tree with max- imum height of about 2,5°, the twigs slightly scurfy, or glabrous. Leaves short-petioled, obovate or broadly oval, obtuse or pointed at the , somewhat cordate and inequilateral at the base, st
. 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. Genus 2. WITCH-HAZEL I. Hamamelis virginiana L. Witch- Hazel. Fig. 2195. Hamamelis virginiana L Sp. PI. 124. 1753. A shrub, or rarely a small tree with max- imum height of about 2,5°, the twigs slightly scurfy, or glabrous. Leaves short-petioled, obovate or broadly oval, obtuse or pointed at the , somewhat cordate and inequilateral at the base, stellate-pubescent, at least wdien young, 2'-5' long, thick, repand-dentate; flow- ers in axillary clusters, nearly sessile, bright yellow, appearing late in the season, when the leaves are falling and while the previous fruit remains; petals narrow, about i" wide, 6"-9" long; calyx-lobes spreading or recurved, oval, ciliate, pubescent on the outer surface; cap- sule maturing the season, beaked with the 2 persistent styles, densely pubescent, 3"-4" high, at length bursting elastically ; seeds bony. In low woods. Nova Scotia to Ontario, Minne- sota, Florida, Texas, Wood hard ; weight per cubic foot 43 lbs. Spotted-alder. Tobacco-wood, Snapping-hazel. Pistachio. Winter-bloom. Dec. Jan -March in the southwest. Family 51. ALTINGIACEAE Hayne, Flora i: 172. 1830. Altingia Family. Forest trees producing a balsamic resin, with furrowed bark, and terete or sometimes, corky-winged branchlets. Leaves alternate, glandular-serrate, pal- mately lobed or unlobed; stipules mostly deciduous. Flowers usually monoecious, sometimes perfect, in heads surrounded by three or four deciduous bracts. Perianth wanting. Heads of staminate flowers in terminal racemes or panicles ; androecium of numerous stamens, interspersed with minute scales. Pistillate flowers in soli- tary, long-peduncled axillary heads; gynoecium of two united carpels; ovary partly inferior; stigmas
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