FoTHERoiLLA. HAMAMELACE/E. 597 



-i^ 1. H. Virffiniana (Linn.): heads of flowers surrounded with a sralc-like 

 3-leaved involucre: leaves obovatc or oval, repaiidly simiate-crenatc, uiie(|ual 

 or obliquely sulxordate at the base, scabrous with minute elevateil spots be- 

 neath, when voiinii stellately pubescent. — Linn. spec. 1. p. 116; Catesb. 

 Car. 3. t. 2: Michx.! f. 1. ]}. 11)0; Purshjl. l.j). Ufj; EU.sk. I. p. 219; 

 Nutt. gen. 1. p. 107 ; DC. prodr. 4. p. 2V>S ; Bart. J}. .Y. Anitr. t. 78 ; Dar- 

 lingt.Ji. Cest. p. 114 ; Guinip. Odo, S^' Ilai/iie, liolz. I. lb. W. niacrophylla, 

 Pursh, I. c. H. dioica, nioiioica, ic androfiyna, Wall. Car. p. 255. 



/?. parvifolia (Null. I. c.) : leaves much smaller and more pubescent 

 beneath. 



In moist woods, Canada ! to Louisiana ! 0. Mountains of Pennsylvania, 

 Nuttall. New Orleans, Drummond ! Oet.-Nov. — Stem H-12 feet lii<rh : 

 branches flexuous. Leaves > .i short petioles. Petals a little crixped, three- 

 fourths of an inch in length. Ovary hirsute. — The flowers usually aj'pear 

 late in autunm, after the leaves have fallen (although sometimes not until 

 the ensuing spring,) and its fruit is perfected the following year. Darlington 

 remarks that the plant is generally polygamous, and that the flowers which 

 want tlie stamens are generally apetalous also. — Wilck-Hazel. 



Tribe IL FOTHERGILLEiE. DC. 



Petals none. Stamens somewhat indefinite (in Parrottia as many 

 as the calyx-segments only), all fertile: filaments very long. Ovules 

 solitary in each cell. 



2. FOTHERGILLA. Linn. f. suppl. ; Lam. ill. t. 840 ; Juss. gen. 

 p. 408 ; Michi. fi. 1. p. 312. 



Calyx campanulate, truncate, repandly 5-7-tootlied. Petals none. Sta- 

 mens about 24, inserted in a single series upon the very margin of the calyx : 

 filaments long, somewhat clavate : anthers innate, 2-celled ; the cells open- 

 ing by 2 valves. Ovary adnate with the base of the calyx : styles 2 (rarely 

 3), filiform, distinct. Capsule cartilaginous, the base cohering with the calyx, 

 2-lobed, opening by 2 valves at the top ; the valves 2-cleft. Seed one in each 

 cell, bony. — A shrub, -with somewhat the habit of Alnus. Flowers (white, 

 odorous, appearing before the leaves) in short terminal amentaceous spikes. 

 Bracts scale-like, imbricated, each covering a single sessUe flower, at length 

 deciduous. 



F. alnifolia (Linn. f. ! 1. c.)—Willd. spec. 2. p. 1224 ; Duham. arh. 4. t. 

 26 ; Bot. mag. t. 1341 Sf 1342 ; IS'ult. gen. 1. p. 304 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 547; 

 Guimp. Otto, Sf Hayne, holz. t. 16; DC. prodr. 4. p. 270. F. Gardeni, 

 Michx. ! I. c. ; Jacq. ic. rar. 1. t. 100. Hamamelis monoica, Linn, ex 

 Smith. 



Margins of swamps and shady woods, Virginia ! to Florida ! March- 

 April. — Shrub 2-4 feet high, with virgate branches. Leaves oval or obovate, 

 acute or obtuse, more or less crenate near the summit, nearly glabrous or 

 etellately-pubescent beneath. Stamens white, sometimes tinged with pink. 

 Bracts in the lower part of the spike 3-cleft. Capsule cancscently hirsute. 

 — Several varieties have been distinguished from the form of the leaves, 

 which vary greatly. We do not comprehend the meaning of the character 

 " a«?/?er<?7i?;>/90crepic«" of De Candolle. The anthers are short, roundish, 

 or very sliglitly cordate ; the cells open by a longitudinal cleft from top to 

 bottom with two valves, which are easily separable from the connectivum. 



