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1. LlQUlDitMBAR Styraciflua. Maple-leaved 



Liquidambar-Tree^ or Sweet Gum. 



This tree grows naturally in low clayey ground, 

 rifing with a ftraight trunk to the height of forty 

 feet or raore, fending off many branches, forming 

 a pyramidal head. The leaves are angular, fome- 

 wha^ rcfembiing thofe of Maple, having five and 

 often feven, pomted, ferrated, fpreading lobes; and 

 are ot a dark green colour. They have a ftrong, 

 f'vveet, glutinous fubftance, exuding through theii^ 

 pores in warm weather, rendering them clammy to 

 the touch. The flowers are produced early in the 

 fpring, and are fucceeded by globular feed-veffels, 

 compofed of many capfules joined at the bafe, but 

 terminating in long foftifh fpines or points, and con- 

 taining each one or two oblong comprefled, winged 

 feed^, with a great numbel' of furfuraceoiis particles. 



2. LiCiiJiDAMBAR afplcuifolia. Spleen-wori'leavcd 



GaUy or Shrubby Szveet Fern. 



This is a fmall (hrub, growing naturally upon dry 

 flaty ridges, and feldom rifing above three feet high, 

 dividing into feveral branches, furnifhed with many 

 oblong leaves, alternately fituated, refc.mbling thofe 

 of Spleen Wort ; of a dark green colour, hairy un- 

 derneath and fitting clofe to the ftalks. The male 

 katkins are produced lying clofe to the fmall branch- 

 es near their ends. The female flowers are in fmall 

 headg a little beneath them, becoming fmall burs, 

 generally containing two or more oblong fmooth 

 feeds. An infufion of the leaves has been ufed as an 

 aftringent in Diarrhseas, &c. 



LIRIODENPRUM. 



