ARBORETUM NOTES. 29 
HAMAMELIDEAS. 
I think, all other trees that we have in cultivation 
here, even the [thus typh'na and Cotinus. One 
Liquidambar at Lady Cullum’s turns to an almost 
perfect rose colour in autumn. 
(Otober, 1868.) The colouring of the Liquid- 
ambar trees here has been and is especially 
gorgeous this season. Even now they are absolutely 
masses of crimson. 
(December, 1869.) By far the largest Liquid- 
ambar I have ever seen, is in Sir John Kennaway’s 
grounds, at Escot, near Ottery St. Mary, Devon- 
Smire. {t #5 réally a timber tree. 
The genus Liquidambar was formerly supposed 
to be closely related to Platanus. Blume made it 
the type of an order (of one genus) which he called 
Balsamiflue ; and Lindley who altered the name 
to Altingiacee (vegetable kingdom) thought that 
its affinities were with planes, willows and birches. 
But the botanists of the present day all seem to 
be agreed that the real relationship of Liquidambar 
is with the Hamamelide@, with which order it is 
actually united by Bentham and Hooker (Gen. 
Plant. v. 1.), and in Hooker’s Icones Plantarum. 
The Hamamalidee are a family by no means 
numerous in species, but widely scattered (none 
however are European) seemingly not very closely 
connected with any other family, but placed by 
Hooker and Bentham between the Saxifragee and 
Liquidanibar 
styracitiua 
