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LAURUS SASSAFRAS. 
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SASSAFRAS-TREE. 
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SrNONTMJ. SafTafi 
odor 
folio trifid 
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Pharnu Lond. £ff Edinb. Cornus ma 
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o 
120. Catejh, Car oh 
margine pi 
aflafras dida. Fluh Aim 
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P- ss 
Saffafras five 
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J, Batih.i. 483. . Saffafras, arbor ex Florida, ficulneo fol 
Pin, 43 1 . 
gnum, pavanum 
o. Bauh 
Saffafr 
Gerard 
525 
Park Th 
606 
RaHBj/I. 11.1^63. Laurus foliis integris trilobifque. Trew, Ehret, 
Duham, Arh 
P- ZS 
Kalm, Can ad, 2. p. ;27o 
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Clqfs Enneandri 
Ord, Monogyn 
Z/. Gen» Plant. 503 
EJf. Gen, Ch, CaL o. Cor, calycina, 6-partita. Ne&arlum glandul 
3, bifetis, germen cingentibus 
Drup 
fperma 
Filamenta interiora glandulifera 
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Sp, Ch 
L. fol. trilobis integrifq 
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' TH E Saffafras tree rifes fometimes to the height of twenty or 
thirty feet,* and is about twelve or fifteen inches in diameter, but it 
is commonly of much lefs growth, and is divided towards the top into 
feveral crooked branches : the bark of the young Ihoots is fmooth 
and green, of the old trunks 
gh, furrowed, and of a ligh 
afh-colour : the leaves vary both in form and fize, fome being oval 
and 
pale-g 
others cut into two or three lobes 
they 
all of a 
veined, downy on the under fide, and placed 
alternately upon long footftalks : the flowers are produced in pendent 
panicles, which fpring from the extremities of the fhoots 
knd 
are 
fpikes 
of the preceding year ; they appear in May and J 
generally male and female upon different trees : the corolla'is divided 
into fix leaves, which are narrow, convex, and of a dingy yellow 
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Vide Marfhall's Arbuftrum A 
No 
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A a 
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colour 
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