CHAP, LX. HAMAMELA CEA. HAMAME ‘LIS. 1007 
superior hilum. Albumen fleshy. Embryo with a superior radicle, and flat 
cotyledons. Leaves alternate, ovate, or cuneated, feather-nerved, nearly entire. 
Flowers nearly sessile, disposed in clusters in the axils of the leaves; girded 
by a 3-leaved involucre. Petals yellow. (Don’s Mill., iii. p. 396., adapted.) 
— Deciduous shrubs, natives of North America and Asia. 
Fornereriiaé L. Calyx campanulate, 5—7-toothed. Anthers in the form of 
a horseshoe. Styles 2. Capsule 2-lobed, 2-celled; cells 2-valved at the 
apex, l-seeded. Seed bony, pendulous, with a superior kilum. Leaves 
alternate, obovate, feather-nerved, bistipulate, clothed with soft starry down. 
Flowers sessile, in terminal ovate spikes, having a solitary bractea under 
each; those at the base of the spike trifid, and those at its apex nearly 
entire. Petals white, sweet-scented, sessile. Anthers yellow. (Don’s Mill., 
adapted.) —A low deciduous shrub, a native of North America. 
Genus I. 
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HAMAME‘LIS Z. Tue Hamame is, or Wycu Hazet, Lin. Syst. 
Tetrandria Digynia. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., 169.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 268. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 396.; Lindl. Nat. Syst., 
p. 333. 
Synonyme. Trildpus Mth. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., 8 App. ; 
Derivation. Hamaméblis is a name by which Athenzus speaks of a tree which blossomed at the 
same time as the apple tree: the word being derived from hama, together with, and mélis, an 
apple tree. The modern application seems to be from the Hamamélis having its blossoms accom- 
panying its fruits (7é/a) ; both being on the tree at the same time. 
% % 1. H.virernica L. The Virginian Hamamelis, or Wych Hazel. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 4. p. 268. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 396. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, 
Synonymes. WHamamelie de Virginie, Fr. ; Virginische Zaubernuss, Ger. ’ 
Engravings. Mill. Ul., t. 10.; N. Du Ham., 7. t. 60.; Bot. Cab., t. 598. ; and our figs. 756, 757. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves obovate, acutely toothed, with ANN 
a small cordate recess at the base. (Don’s Mill., iii. 
p. 396.) A deciduous shrub, a native of North 
America, from Canada to Florida; found in dry and 
stony situations, but frequently also near water, and 
growing to the height of 20 ft. or 30 ft., with a trunk 
6in. or more in diameter. It was introduced in 1736, 
and flowers from the beginning of October to the end 
of February. In British gardens, it has been but 
little cultivated, notwithstanding the singularity of 
its appearance in autumn and winter; when it is 
profusely covered with its fine rich yellow flowers, 
which begin to expand before the leaves of the pre- 
vious summer drop off, and continue on the bush 
throughout the winter. After the petals drop off in 
spring, the persistent calyxes remain on till the leaves 
reappear in April or May. The flowers are either 
polygamous, dicecious, moneecious, or androgynous ; and hence the names? 
insome American catalogues, of H. dioica, H. monojca, and H, andrégyna. 
The American Indians esteem this tree for its medical properties: the bark 
is sedative and discutient; and it is applied by them to painful tumours 
and external inflammations. They also apply a poultice of the inner rind to 
remove inflammations of the eyes. In the neighbourhood of London, it is 
rarely found above 5ft. or 6ft. high; but there is a plant of it in the 
grounds of Ham House upwards of 15ft. high, growing in deep sandy 
soil, not far distant from water, of which fig. 757. is a portrait taken in 
November, 1835, to a scale of lin. to 12ft. Owing to its flowering during 
the winter season, it deserves a place in every collection where there is 
room. It will grow in any light free soil, kept rather moist; and it is pro- 
pagated by layers and by seeds ; which last, though rarely produced in Bri- 
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