288 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Lippia citriodora, Kunth. < 



Peru, Chili, La Plata- States, Brazil. An evergreen shrub, yielding 

 scented oil, used for condiments and for perfumery as " Verbena." 

 The leaves fit for flavoring tea. L. Mexicana has come into 

 therapeutic use, particularly as an expectorant. 



Liquidambar Altingla, Blume. 



At the Red Sea and on the mountains of India and New Guinea, 

 ascending to about 3,000 feet. The tree attains a height of 200 feet. 

 It yields the fragrant balsam known as Liquid Storax. 



Liquidambar Formosana, Hance. 



China. A silk-producing insect is reared on this tree [Hance]. 



Liquidambar orientalis, Miller. (L. Merbe, Aiton.) 



Asia Minor. This tree also yields Liquid Storax, which is vanilla- 

 scented, containing much styrol and styracin, and thus used for 

 imparting scent to some sorts of tobacco and cigars, also for keeping 

 moths from clothing. Its use in medicine is more limited than in 

 perfumery. 



Liquidambar styraciflua, Linne". 



The Sweet-Gum tree. In morasses and on the springs of forests of 

 Eastern North- America, with a wide geographic range. Endures 

 severe frosts after the plant has attained considerable size. Succeeds 

 on a great variety of soils [B. E. Fernow]. The ramifications of the 

 tree attain vast dimensions ; the stem to about 100 feet in height and 

 to 10 feet in diameter. The wood is reddish-brown, very compact 

 and heavy, fine-grained, durable, easily worked, little liable to warp, 

 and admitting of a fine finish, with its pleasing tint, especially 

 adapted for furniture. The terebinthine juice hardens, on exposure, 

 to a resin of benzoin odor. The bark contains about 8 per cent, 

 tannin. Leaves fragrant, turning crimson in autumn [Asa Gray]. 



Liriodendron tulipifera, Linn6. 



The Tulip-tree of North-America. One of the largest trees of the 

 United States, and one of the grandest vegetable productions of the 

 temperate zone. In deep fertile soil and cool valleys it sometimes 

 attains a height of about 140 feet, with a straight clear stem reaching 

 9 feet in diameter. In Norway it is hardy to lat. 61 17' [Schue- 

 beler]. In Berwickshire a tree still exists that was planted about 

 200 years ago ; at 2 feet from the ground it measures 23 feet in 

 circumference. The Tulip- wood is highly esteemed and very exten- 

 sively used, wherever this tree abounds, uniting lightness with hand- 

 someness. It is of a light-yellow colour, fine-grained, compact, easily 



