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Index of Botanical Specimens

Classification	Hamamelidaceae: Liquidambar
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00872599
Collector	H. D. Thoreau
Country	United States of America
State	New Jersey
Geography	North America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: New Jersey: Middlesex County
Locality	Perth Amboy
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/33c3512e-98ec-4dd8-bc41-899975ef72bf
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00872599
Herbarium	GH
Family	Hamamelidaceae
Determination	Liquidambar styraciflua Linnaeus
Determination Remarks	[filed under] [label name] [current name]
Subcollection	Thoreau Herbarium
Phenology	Sterile
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed

Remarks

v. fruit [“Arrived at Eagleswood, Perth Amboy, Saturday, 5 p. m., October 25th. . . Oct. 27. Monday. Began to survey along the shore and through the woods. . . The liquidambar or sweet-gum trees, very common and large, oak-like. The corky bark on young trees and twigs was raised into two ears, so as to form a channel, which would conduct the rain down the branches to the main stem, I should say. The fruit was a coarse, rigid, spherical bur, an inch or more in diameter, which opened and dropped much fine seed in my trunk.” Journal 9: 134, 136. 1856]