LAURACEAE 923 
Hammocks, pen. Fla. and the Keys.—(W. I.)—Spr m dark-brown heart- 
wood, hard, and heavy, is used locally for eabinet-wor 
5. SASSAFRAS Nees. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, deciduous: 
blades lobed or partly entire. Flow in UD clustered cymes. Style 
what elon ow —Two species, the ROUSNUAE 
and one Asiat 
l. S. Sassafras (L.) Kar a or shrub, 
with ridged bark: leaf- blades 3-lobed, or 
rarely entire or 2-lobed: flowers greenish- 
yellow, fragrant: sepals 6, narrowly elliptic, 
2.5-3 mm. long: drupe oval, 8-10 lon 
dark-blue. — (SASSAFRAS. SASSAFRAX. 
AGUE-TRE E.)— Woods, b: and roadsides, 
various provinces, Fla. to Tex., Ia., s 
T iiec and as 
flavoring agent. The orange-brown heart 
wood, coarse- grained, brittle and weak, á 
used in boat- construction, a., and lor ni requiring Ta 
6. GLABRARIA L. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate (ours decidu- 
ous): blades entire. Flowers in clustered umbel-like involucrate cymes. Style 
subulate. Drupe (ours) subglobose. [Mal 
poena Adans.|—About 100 species, widely 
distributed in tropical and warm regions 
1. te geniculata (Walt.) Britton. Spread- 
ing shrub 2-3 m ap with zigzag g branches: 
leaf- pun elliptic, 1.5-6 em. long: flowers 
2—4 er: calyx ds "sepals yellow, 
2-3 g: 5-6 mm diameter, 
red.—(POND-SPICE. POND-BUSH.)—-S 
and a ag Plain pay 251 T 
provinces, F E I and 
Wint.-spr. ied of gus Ts of 
somewhat uncertain reb ones Its closest 
relatives are tropieal. 
7. MISANTECA Cham. & Schlecht. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, 
persistent: blades entire. Flowers p AA in panicled cymes. Sepals 
6, nearly similar, short, erect, about as long Q 
as the enlarged portion of the hypanthium. 
Style columnar: stigma minute, surrounded 
3 erect stamens. Drupe slightly 
elongate, seated in the cup-like hypanthium 
which is bordered by the ta ealyx.— 
Four species, tropical Americ 
triandra (Sw.) Mez. Tree with 
somewhat flaky bark: leaf- blades elliptie or 
oval, 4.5-11 
o-1ll em. long, a icu acuminate, 
a often blunt, lustrous above: calyx whi te, 
mm. broad; sepals bius: fruits 
