L. Styracíflua.
Liquidámbar Styracíflua, L. (Sweet Gum. Bilsted.) Leaves rounded, deeply 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 cultivation than it has yet received.
Order XX. LYTHRÀCEÆ.
(Loosestrife Family.)
A small order of shrubs, herbs, or trees; mainly tropical.
Genus 42. PÙNICA.
Leaves simple, usually opposite, deciduous; flowers scarlet, with 5 petals and numerous stamens; fruit a many-seeded berry.
P. granàtum.
Pùnica granàtum, 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-flavored. 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.