Ko. 45. HAMAXaBIiZS. S^ 



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HAMAMELIS VIRGIISICA 



English Name— WINTER WITCH HAZEL. 



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French Name — Hamamelier d'htver. 



German Name — Hexehasel. , 



Officinal Name — ^^Hamaraelis Cortex. 



Vulgar Names — AVitch hazel, Snapping hazel- 

 nut, Winter bloom, Pistachoe nut, &c. 



Authorities — Lin. Mich. Pursh, Cutler, Schoepf, 

 Mitchell, Colden, Catesby, fig. 2. Barton Flora, fi 

 78, Elliott, &c. 



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Genus Hamamelis — Calix four cleft, persistent, 

 with scales at the base. Petals four long and linear. 

 Stamina four opposite to the petals. Filaments broad 

 and short, anthers adnate, two celled, dehiscent by- 

 vertical valves, one pistil, two stigmas. Capsule coria- 

 ceous nut-like, two celled, two lobed, two valved 

 above, valves cleft : one oblong seed in each cell. 



Species St. Vieginica— Leaves obovate, obtuse, 

 smooth, base obliquely cordate, margin erosej flow- 

 ers in small remote clusters, calix and fruit pubescent 



externally. 



DESCRIPTION— A shrub from six to ten feet 

 high, with irregular branches, flexuose and knotty : 

 bark smooth grey, with brown dots. Leaves rather 

 large, smooth, alternate, petiolate, obovate, base with 

 9L small sinus and unequal lobes, margin with unequal 



