HAMAMELIDACEAE. 87 
FOTHERGILLA. 
(Family Hamamelidaceae). 
Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 
rounded, zig-zag, slender, dingy 
stellate-tomentose or more or less 
glabrescent: pith rather small, 
somewhat angular, continuous, for 
a time greenish. Buds moderate 
or small, stalked, oblique, obovate 
or oblong, with 2 caducous scales, 
often collaterally branched, the 
end-bud largest. lLeaf-scars_ al- 
ternate, 2-ranked, half-round or 
deltoid, slightly raised, small: 
bundle-traces 3, more or less com- 
pound or confluent: stipule-scars 
unequal, one short and the other 
elongated. Capsules often pres- 
ent. hs 
Though the vegetative charac- 
ters of Fothergilla are much like 
those of Hamamelis, the flowers 
and capsules are borne in elon- 
gated clusters in the former and in short groups in the 
latter. This character is usually available in winter. 
The winter-characters of Fothergilla carolina—or F. Garde- 
nii as it is called here—are pictured by Schneider, f. 107. 
1. Very low and suckering: gray-puberulent. F. parvifolia. 
Rather tall: buds yellowish or tawny. 2. 
2. Openly branched. 3. 
Pyramidal. F. monticola. 
3. Capsules long-beaked, over 10 mm. long: stout. 
(1).-F. major. 
Capsules short (scarcely 10 mm.): twigs often slender. 
(2). F. Gardenii. 
