192 Hamamelidea L iqu ida m bar. 



2. LIQUIDAMBAR. 



Trees with a balsamic juice. Leaves alternate, glabrous, de- 

 ciduous, palrnately lobed ; petioles long and slender. Male and 

 female flowers separate, with four large bracts forming an in- 

 volucre at the base of each head. Petals none. Capsules 

 woody, several together, splitting between the cells. Seeds 

 several, angular, shortly winged. There are only three 

 species known, one from the Levant, one North American, and 

 one lately discovered in the island of Formosa. The name 

 was given in consequence of one species producing the liquid 

 storax. 



1. L. Styraciftua. This is a small erect-growing tree of 

 elegant appearance, especially towards Autumn, when the 

 leaves change to a bright red, and remain on the tree for some 

 time afterwards. In foliage it resembles some of the Maples, 

 but the leaves being alternate it is readily distinguished. 

 North America. 



2. L. imberbe, syn L. orientalis. Very near the foregoing, 

 but of a more shrubby habit ; the palmate usually 5-lobed 

 leaves are scattered along the branches, not tufted at the 

 extremities, and the main divisions of the leaves are again 

 lobed. A native of the Levant, and rare in British gardens. 



Corylopsis spicata is a handsome deciduous Japanese shrub 

 with Hazel-like leaves and drooping bracteate spikes of yellow- 

 ish fragrant flowers produced in Spring before the foliage is 

 developed. 



ORDEK XLIII.-HALORAGE^l. 



A small family of marsh and water plants, chiefly insignifi- 

 cant weeds. Flowers small and often incomplete, parts in twos 

 or fours. The Water Milfoil (Myriophyllum) and Mare's 

 Tail (Hippums) belong to this order. The only species 

 worthy of further notice here is of very distinct and peculiar 

 habit, as will be seen from the cut. 



1. G0NNERA. 



Herbs with large radical leaves. Flowers in dense spikes or 

 branched panicles. About twelve species are known, nearly 



