860 ENNEANDREA, TRIGYNTAs 
lobed, every where very smooth and thin, under side ob- 
soletely veined, petiole longer. (White Sassafras.) Hac. 
In North and South Carolina abundant, from the Cataw- 
ba mountains to the east bank of the Santee; growing 
with the common species, which is in North Carolina less 
abundant. I have not seen it in flower, therefore the 
comparison is incomplete, but all the inhabitants distin- 
guish them perfectly by the names of white and red Sas- 
safras, this species is also sometimes denominated Smooth 
Sassafras; the root is much more strongly camphorated 
than the ordinary sort and nearly white; it is also better 
calculated to answer as a substitute for Ochra (Hibiscus . 
- esculentus) than E. Sassafras, its buds and young bran- 
ches being much more mucilaginous. 
The genus Ocotea of Aublet appears to be very nearly 
related to the present, but’ the flowere are paniculated; 
and the filaments of the anthers are described as broad 
~ and truncate.t 
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Orver IL—TRIGYNIA.. 
375. ERIOGONUM. Michaux. 
__. Galix subcyathiform, tubulous at the base,. 
border 6-cleft, segments unequal, externally 
villous, Corolla none. Seed 1,. triquetrous, 
without margins, covered by the calix. (Flow- 
ers involucrate: Stipules none.) 
‘Herbaceous or suffruticose plants, mostly stemless and 
eéspitose, with alternate leaves, more or Jess tomentose; 
flowers involucrate; involucrum cup-shaped or campanu-- 
late, many-flowered (15 to 20;) flowers circularly articu- 
_ lated to the peduncles, many of them deciduous. (E- to- 
-¥ This is the BRorostema of Schreber’s genera, and apparent- 
itious, so far_as it varys. from the account of Aublet. It 
d as having a 6-parted calix; 9 filaments called nec-_ 
ed in may 3 of them being internal and furnish- 
(eee sions. flecnenis. ie Sow So Pree f 
pores 4 polliniferous ce! Sassafras, 
L.. geviculata) but monstrous to relate, from all 
