IOC. TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



to good, light soils, but grows best in moist, loam. 1 1 lias few 

 disfiguring insect enemies. Mostly propagated by seed, but 

 somet hues successfully collected; for sale in the leading 

 nurseries and usually obtainable in large quantities. Of 

 abnormal forms offered by nurserymen, one lias an upright 

 habit approaching that of the Lombardy poplar ; another has 

 variegated leaves, and another leaves without lobes. 



Plate LIIT. Liriodendron Tulipifera. 



1. Winter bud, terminal. 4. Fruit. 



2. Opening leaf-bud with stipules. 5. Fruit with many carpels removed. 

 ;>. Flowering branch. 0. Carpel with seeds. 



LAURACEiE. LAUREL FAMILY. 



Sassafras officinale, Nees. 

 Sassafras Sassafras, Karsl. 



Sassafras. 



Habitat and Range. In various soils and situations ; sandy 

 or rich woods, along the borders of peaty swamps. 



Provinces of Quebec and Ontario. 



Maine, this tree grows not beyond Black Point (Scar- 

 boro, Cumberland county) eastward (Josselyn's New .Eng- 

 land Rarities, 1G72) ; not reported again by botanists for 

 more than two hundred years ; rediscovered at Wells in 

 1895 (Walter Deane) and North Berwick in 1 896 ( J. C. 

 Parlin) ; New Hampshire, lower Merrimac valley, eastward 

 to the coast and along the Connecticut valley to Bellows 

 Falls ; Vermont, - - occasional south of the center ; Pownal 

 (Bobbins, Eggleston) ; Hartland and Brattleboro (Bates), Ver- 

 non (Grant) ; Massachusetts, common especially in the east- 

 ern sections; Rhode Island and Connecticut, common. 



South to Florida ; west to Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, and Texas. 



Habit. Generally a shrub or small tree but sometimes 

 reaching a height of 40-50 feet and a trunk diameter of 2-4 



