12 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. HAMAMELIDES. 
attracted the attention of European pharmacists.! It was introduced from Virginia into England, and 
was cultivated before 1688 by Bishop Compton in his garden at Fulham.’ 
As an ornament for parks and roadsides in the middle and southern states, few trees are more 
valuable than the Sweet Gum.? It grows rapidly and is not particular about soil; its habit, although 
rather regular before it reaches maturity, adapts it to formal planting ; the leaves are unsurpassed in 
beauty of form, in lustre, or in the brilliancy of their autumnal tints ; and in winter its broadly winged 
branches make it a curious and interesting object. 
(i. e.) pericarpio orbiculari, ex quamplurimis apicibus coagmentato semen Liquidambar Styraciflua; Aceris folio, Romans, Nat. Hist. 
recondens, Plukenet, Phyt. t. 42, f. 6; Alm. Bot. 224.—Catesby, Florida, 20. 
Nat. Hist. Car. ii. 65, t. 65. 1 J. Bauhin, Hist. Pl. i. lib. ix. 323. — Parkinson, Theatr. 1590. 
Liquidambar, Linnzus, Hort. Cliff. 486 ; Hort. Ups. 287. — Clay- 2 Ray, Hist. Pl. ii. 1681. — Aiton, Hort. Kew. iii. 365. — Loudon, 
ton, Fl. Virgin. 190.— Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. 534. Arb. Brit. iv. 2049, f. 1961. 
Liquidambari Arbor, Blackwell, Coll. Stirp. t. 485. 8 In some parts of the country Liquidambar Styraciflua is also 
Il Xochiocotzotl, volgarmente appellato Liquidambar, lo storace known as Star-leaved Gum, Liquidamber, and Red Gum. 
liquido dei Messicani, Clavigero, Storia Antica del Messico, i. 64. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Pusate CXCIX. LiquipamBaR STYRACIFLUA. 
1. A flowering branch, natural size. 
2. Diagram of a pistillate flower. 
3. Vertical section of a head of stamens, natural size. 
4 and 5. Front and rear views of a stamen, enlarged. 
6. Vertical section of a head of pistillate flowers, natural size. 
7. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 
8. Vertical section of a pistillate flower, enlarged. 
9. An ovule, much magnified. 
10. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
11. Vertical section of a capsule showing in one cell a perfect seed 
and in the other a mass of undeveloped ovules, enlarged. 
12. A seed, natural size. 
13. Vertical sections of a seed, enlarged. 
14, An embryo, enlarged. 
15. A winter-bud, natural size. 
16. Part of a young branch with wings. 
