CHAPTER V. 



I. Simple Alternate Leaves. 



2. With teeth. A. Edge not divided. 



THE WITCH-HAZEL, SORREL TREE, ELMS, 



ETC. 



Witch-Hazel. The weird-looking witch-hazel, whose 

 Hamamelis twigs are decorated in autumn with 



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tiny tangled yellow blossoms, is a 

 shrub rather than a tree, reaching a height, how- 

 ever, of fully 30 feet if it happens to grow under 

 advantageous circumstances. In the woods of the 

 White Mountains it rarely grows more than 12 

 feet high, but in the township of Campton I know of 

 three handsome trees over 16 feet in height, each 

 of which possesses only two or three stems; their 

 appearance, in fact, is quite treelike. 



The leaf of the witch-hazel, on an average two 

 and a half inches long and nearly as broad, is rather 

 roughly modeled ; one side is larger than the other, 



their irregular teeth are coarse and wavy pointed, the 



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