STYRACE.E 



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Distribution. Mountain slopes at altitudes from 3000-4000, western North Caro- 

 lina, eastern Tennessee and western Georgia; passing into the var. vestita Sarg., with 



Fig. 733 



leaves often rounded at base, coated below and on the petioles when they unfold with 

 snow- white tomentum, and at maturity pubescent over the lower surface, especially on 

 the midrib and veins, and occasionally pale rose-colored flowers (f . rosea Sarg.) ; banks 

 of streams, near Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina; Heber Springs, Carroll 

 County, Arkansas; occasionally cultivated with the var. vestita and hardy in the Arnold 

 Arboretum and in Rochester, New York. 



Halesia monticola in cultivation grows rapidly with a single trunk; and is hardy in east- 

 ern Massachusetts. 



3 Halesia parviflora Michx. 



Leaves oblong-ovate to slightly obovate or elliptic, abruptly long-pointed or acuminate 

 at apex, narrowed and cuneate or rounded at base, finely serrate with minute glandular 



Fig. 734 



teeth, densely covered when they unfold with hoary tomentum, becoming pubescent or 

 glabrous, 2f'-3i* long and l'-lj' wide, with a slender midrib and primary veins villose- 



