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1. Liquidambar Styraciflua. Maple-leaved 
Liquidambar-Tree , or Sweet Gum. 
This tree grows naturally in low clayey ground, 
riling with a ftraight trunk to the height of forty 
feet or more, fending off many branches, forming 
a pyramidal head. The leaves are angular, feme- 
what rcfembling thofe of Maple, having five and 
often [even, pointed, ferrated, fpreading lobes; and 
are of a dark green colour. They have a ftrong, 
fwetr. glutinous fubltance, exuding through their 
pores in warm weather, rendering them clammy to 
the touch.' The flowers are produced early in the 
fpiing, and are fucceeded by globular feed-veflels, 
coropofed of many capfules joined at the bafe, but 
terminating in long foftifli fpines or points, and con- 
taining each one or two oblong comprdfed, winged 
feeds, \vith a great number of furfuraceous particles. 
2. Liquidambar afplenifolia. Spleen-wort-leaved 
Gale , or Shrubby Sweet Fern. 
This is a fmall fhrub, growing naturally upon dry 
flaty ridges, and feldom rifing above three feet high, 
dividing into feveral branches, furnilhed with many 
oblong leaves, alternately fituated, refembling thofe 
of Spleen Wort; of a dark green colour, hairy un« 
derneath and fitting clofe to the (talks. The male 
katkin$ are produced lying clofe to the fmall branch- 
es near their ends. The female flowers are in fmall 
heads a little beneath them, becoming fmall burs, 
generally containing two or more oblong fmooth 
feeds. An infuflon of the leaves has been ufed as an 
aftringent in Diarrhoeas, &c. 
LIRIODENDRUM. 
