Hamamelidaceae. 



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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. Leaf-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. 



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. i07. 



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. 



