Liquidambar styraciflua L.

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NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA
Liquidambar styraciflua L.
Examined by Frederick G. Meyer, 1990
U. S. NATIONAL ARBORETUM, WASHINGTON, D. C.
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Elongation of the Inflorescence in liquidambar.
. On page 43# of Master’s Vegetable Teratology, it is stated
that “MM. Cios and.DeSchonenfelci have recorded the existence ,
a, variety of the S#eet Chestnut, Castanea, in which the pistil- /
fate catkins were as long and bore nearly as many flowers as the
staminate. This is stateci to be of constant occurrence in some
localities and to-be accompariied by a diminished size of the fruits.
Assimilar elongation has bfeen observed in the Walnut, catkins
of which havi^ been. |/sqn bearing thirty to thirty-five large nuts.”
We have a similar eloi%ation of the pistillate inflorescence to report
in the case of the Sweet :Gum, Liquidambar styracijlua, found at
NeW Dorp, Staten Island ^The cluster is over three inches long, v
with six distinct g^omerulés below, the lowest of which is pedi-
celledvthe others sessile and%erging into thè terminal confluent
portion.
, ^ j % . ‘ ,	I ?	E. G. Britton.
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