108 TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 
Genus 41. LIQUIDAMBAR. 
Trees with alternate, simple, palmately cleft leaves. 
Flowers inconspicuous; in spring. Fruit a large (1 in.), 
globular, long-stalked, dry, open, 
rough catkin, hanging on the tree 
through the winter. 
Liquidémbar Styraciflua, L. (SWEET 
GuM. BILsTED.) Leaves rounded, deep- 
ly 5- to 7- cleft, star-shaped, dark green, 
smooth and shining, glandular-serrate. 
Twigs often covered with corky ridges. 
A large, beautiful tree, 30 to 70 ft. high, 
with deeply furrowed bark. Connecticut, 
west and south; abundant south of 40° 
N. Lat. Well worthy of more extensive 
L. Styracifiua. cultivation than it has yet received. 
OrpDER XX. LYTHRACEZ, 
(LOOSESTRIFE FAMILY.) 
A small order of shrubs, herbs, or trees; mainly tropical. 
Genus 42. PUNICA. 
Leaves simple, usually opposite, deciduous; flowers 
scarlet, with 5 petals and numerous stamens; fruit a many- 
seeded berry. 
Punica granatum, L. (PoMEGRANATE- 
TREE.) Leaves opposite, lanceolate, 
smooth, entire; flowers large, both calyx 
and corolla scarlet and very ornamental; 
the fruit as large as an orange, fine-fla- 
vored. A tree-shaped plant, growing to 
the height of 20 ft. in the Southern States. 
If given some protection, it can be grown 
as far north as Washington. It has been 
cultivated from the earliest times, and is 
probably a native of western Asia. 
