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TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 



GENUS 41. LIQUID AMB AH. 



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. 



Liquidambar 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. styracjflua, cultivation than it has yet received. 



ORDER XX. L 



(LOOSESTRIFE FAMILY.) 



A small order of shrubs, herbs, or trees; mainly tropical. 



GENUS 42. PTJNICA. 



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. p. grand: 



