CHAPTER Y. 



I. Simple Alternate Leaves. 



3. With teeth. A. Edge not divided. 



THE WITCH-HAZEL, SORREL TREE, ELMS, 

 ETC. 



Witch-Hazel. The weird-looking witdi-hazel, whose 

 Hamameiia twigs are decorated in autumn with 



irgimana. ^.^^ tangled jellow blossouis, is a 

 shrub rather than a tree, reaching a height, how- 

 ever, of fully 30 feet if it happens to grow under 

 advantageous circumstances. In the woods of the 

 "White Mountaias it rarely grows more than 12 

 feet high, but in the township of Campton I know of 

 three handsome trees over 16 feet in height, each 

 of which possesses only two or three stems; their 

 appearance, in fact, is quite treehke. 



The leaf of the witch-hazel, on an average two 

 and a half inches long and nearly as broad, is rather 

 roughly modeled ; one side is larger than the other, 



their irregular teeth are coarse and wavy pointed, the 



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