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Title: An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stevens, George T. (George Thomas), 1832-1921
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Taste disagreeable. On moun-tains and in wet places. May-June. 7. R. fioridum, LHer. (Fig. 6, pi. 61.) Wild Black Currant.Branches erect, without prickles or spines; leaves 3- to 5-lobed, somewhatdotted below. Flowers numerous, in pendulous clusters, the caljrx cylin-dric, bracts exceeding the length of the flower pedicels. Fruit black,smooth, insipid. In woods, rather common. April-May. 8. R. vulgare, Lam. (Fig. 5, pi. 61.) Red Currant. The gardencurrant, sometimes growing wild. Fruit red, pleasantly acid. Family V.—HAMAMELIDACEAE. Witch Hazel Family In our region, a small tree or shrub, with alternate broad leavesand with clusters of yellow flowers on the newer branches in thelate Slimmer or autumn. Calyx small, greenish, of 4 sepals rolledbackward, corolla of 4 elongated strap-shaped yellow petals. Sta-mens 4 or more. Fruit a 2-cellcd woody capsule. I. HAMAMELIS, L.Tall shrubs or small trees. Tiie genus is sufTlciently described underour only species, below. GOOSEBERRY FAMILY 305
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Plate 611 Itea virginica. 2. Ribes Cynoshati. 3. R. oxyacanthoides. 4. R. pros-tratum. 5. Rrvulgare. 6 R. floridum. 7. R. laciistre. 8. Platanus occiden-talis. 9. Liquidambar Styracifhia. 10. Hamamelis viigiiiiana. 30G PLATANACEAE H. virginiana, L. (Fi(r. 10, pi. fil.) Witch Hazel. Shrub or smalltree. Leaves on short leaf-stalks, broadly oval, somewhat heart-shapedand unequal at base, covered, at least when young, with soft hairs; bor-ders with rounded teeth. Flowers in clusters of several, makinn; tuftsof yellow, the long narrow petals appearing like threads of yellow inthe tuft. They appear, as the leaves fall or earlier, at the axis of thecoming leaves. An interesting shrub in damp woods. Blooms Aug.-Dec. 2. LIQUIDAMBAR, L. In our region, a tree with broad 5-fnigered or 5-lobed leaves. Stamensand pistils in different flowers which are in different groups on the sametree. Stamens in staminate flowers numerous, calyx and corolla absent.Pistillate flowers have a small calyx the sepals

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