Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . uth-eastern United States. Pterostyrax () is a small group of North Asiatic trees and shrubs,sometimes united with Halesia, but very well marked by differencespointed out in the notes on the genus. From the also nearly alliedStyrax, Halesia differs in the winged fruits and inferior ovary. H. CAROLINA, Linnceus. Snowdrop or Silver-hell Tree. (II. tetraptera, Ellis.) A deciduous tree, 20 to 30 ft. high in this country ; said to be occasionallytwice as high in its native places, with a trunk 3 ft. in thickness. With us it isof spreading habit, of
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . uth-eastern United States. Pterostyrax () is a small group of North Asiatic trees and shrubs,sometimes united with Halesia, but very well marked by differencespointed out in the notes on the genus. From the also nearly alliedStyrax, Halesia differs in the winged fruits and inferior ovary. H. CAROLINA, Linnceus. Snowdrop or Silver-hell Tree. (II. tetraptera, Ellis.) A deciduous tree, 20 to 30 ft. high in this country ; said to be occasionallytwice as high in its native places, with a trunk 3 ft. in thickness. With us it isof spreading habit, often a shrub ; young shoots at first clothed with stellatedown. Leaves oval to obovate, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, abruptlytaper-pointed, minutely toothed ; 2 to 5 ins. long, I to 2I ins. wide, thicklycovered beneath with grey stellate down, less so above ; stalk \ to j^ in. long,downy. Flowers produced in May on slender, downy, pendulous stalks \ to iin. long, in clusters of three to five from the joints of the naked, year-old o z HALESIA—HALTMODENDRON 603 Corolla white, bell-shaped, ^ to | in. long and wide, shallowly four-lobed. Fruitsomewhat pear-shaped, but with four prominent wings running lengthwise andan awl-shaped termination ; altogether about ih ins. long. Native of the south-eastern United States ; introduced by Mr J. E. Ellisin 1756. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful flowering trees introducedto this country from X. America ; yet it is by no means abundantly planted. Var. GLABRESCENS, Ferkins (H. parviflora, Hort.^ not Michaux)^ differs fromthe type in the oblong oval leaves proportionately narrower (three or four timesas long as wide), soon quite smooth beneath. Flowers smaller, fruits morenarrowly four-winged ; the whole plant less downy, Var. Meehani, Perkins^ was raised from seed in Meehans nurser>,Germantown, Philadelphia. It differs from ordinary H. Carolina in itssmaller, shorter-stalked flowers ; the corolla is more cup-shaped
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