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find, on your right, and on your left, quite near the 

 Walk, well-grown specimens of this handsome Japan 

 variety of storax. The westerly one is near the Bu- 

 mald's spiraea. 



In June or July this pretty tree hangs its branches 

 full of pure waxy-white flowers, which droop in short, 

 loose, axillary or terminal racemes, one to four-flow- 

 ered. They are very beautiful, with bell-shaped corol- 

 las, five-lobed. The lobes spread out in rather a star- 

 like way. The richly yellow stamens, ten in number 

 (twice the number of the lobes of the corolla), are 

 fastened at the base of the corolla and make a beau- 

 tiful contrast against the pure white petals. The 

 leaves of this small tree are set alternately on the 

 branch, are smooth, ovate, or broadly-elliptic, pointed 

 at both ends, and are about three inches long. They are 

 finely serrated. When young the leaves have stellate 

 hairs. The flowers are succeeded by small, round, dry 

 drupes in autumn. 



While studying the storax here, it may be well to 

 note that the pretty halesia or silverbell tree, which 

 you have met so many times on these rambles, is of the 

 same family. The halesia, which by the way, gets 

 its name from Setphen Hales, a writer on vegetable 

 physiology, carries its flowers, also, from the axils of 

 the leaves. It is interesting to note the family rela- 

 tionship of the trees and shrubs as you study them. If 

 you will do this, it will add great enjoyment to your 

 investigations. 



You will find another storax on the edge of the 

 Drive, southwest of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



