8§ HAMAMELIDACEAE. 
HAMAMELIS. Witch Hazel. 
(Family Hamamelidaceae). 
Shrubs or exceptionally small 
trees: deciduous. Twigs rounded, 
zig-zag, rather slender, from dingy 
stellate-tomentose becoming glab- 
rate and sometimes rather glossy: 
pith moderately small, roundish, 
continuous, at first green. Buds 
moderate, stalked, oblong, tomen- 
tulose, with 2 stipular scales or 
naked when these have _ fallen, 
often developed into short colla- 
teral recurved branches bearing 
about 3 flower-buds or flowers or 
incipient capsules. lLeaf-sears al- 
ternate, 2-ranked, half-round or 
somewhat 3-lobed, somewhat 
raised and with their surface 
again falling in spring: bundle- 
traces 3, often compound: stipule- 
scars unequal, one round and the 
other somewhat elongated. 
The curious double abscission of the petiole forms the 
subject of a note by Foerste in the Bulletin of the Torrey 
Botanical Club for 1884. 
Winter-character references:—Hamamelis japonica. Shi- 
rasawa, 267, pl. 9.—H. virginiana. Blakeslee & Jarvis, 331, 
478, pl.; Brendel, pl. 4; Schneider, f. 96. 
1. Buds long (fully 10 mm. including stalk). H. japonica. 
Buds short (5-8 mm. including stalk). 2. 
2. Flowering in autumn. (1). H. virginiana. 
Flowering in late winter. 3. : 
3. Pubescence scurfy. H. vernalis. 
Pubescence long. H. mollis. 
