equally toothed and cut above the middle; on short
petioles; the teeth, stipules and petioles glandular. Flowers mostly
solitary, white, large (3/4 in). May. Fruit usually pear-shaped, quite
large (3/4 in. long), yellow or greenish-yellow, sometimes tinged or
spotted with red, pleasant-flavored. Ripe in autumn. A low spreading
tree, 15 to 20 ft. high. Virginia, south and west, in sandy soil.

Var. _pubescens_ is downy-or villous-pubescent when young, and has
thicker leaves and larger and redder fruit.

GENUS =39. AMELANCHIER.=

Small trees or shrubs with simple, deciduous, alternate, sharply serrate
leaves; cherry-blossom-like, white flowers, in racemes at the end of the
branches, before the leaves are fully expanded. Fruit a small apple-like
pome; seeds 10 or less, in separate cartilaginous-coated cells.

[Illustration: A. Canadensis.]

=Amelanchier Canadensis=, Torr. & Gray. (SHAD-BUSH. SERVICE-BERRY.) A
very variable species with many named varieties. The leaves, 1 to 3 1/2
in. long, vary from narrow-oblong to roundish or cordate; bracts and
stipules silky-ciliate. Flowers large, in drooping racemes, in early
spring, with petals from 2 to 5 times as long as wide. Fruit globular,
1/2 in. broad, purplish, sweet, edible; ripe in June. It varies from a
low shrub to a middle-sized tree, 5 to 30 ft. high.

ORDER =XIX. HAMAMELIDEAE.=

(WITCH-HAZEL FAMILY.)

A small family of trees and shrubs represented in most countries.

GENUS =40. HAMAMELIS.=

Tall shrubs, rarely tree-like, with alternate, straight-veined,
2-ranked, oval, wavy-margined leaves. Flowers conspicuous, yellow,
4-parted; blooming in the autumn while the leaves are dropping, and
continuing in bloom through part of the winter. Fruit rounded capsules
which do not ripen till the next summer.

[Illustration: H. Virginiana.]

=Hamamelis Virginiana=, L. (WITCH-HAZEL.) The only species; 10 to 30 ft.
high; rarely grows with a single trunk, but usually forms a slender,
crooked-branched shrub. Flowers sessile, in small clusters of 3 to 4, in
an involucre in the axils of the leaves.

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.

[Illustration: L. Styraciflua.]

=Liquidambar Styraciflua=, L. (SWEET GUM. BILSTED.) Leaves rounded,
deeply 5- to 7-cleft, star-shaped, dark