ILLICIUM FLORIDANUM. 
Starry Anise. 
PLATE XLVILl, 
Tue same qualities which entitle the Lirio- 
dendron and Magnolias to a place among medi- 
cinal plants, exist abundantly in the kindred genus 
of Hlicium. This family consists of fine, spicy, 
flowering shrubs, one of which, the I. anisatum, 
growing in Eastern Asia, derives its name from 
the similiarity of its flavour to that of Anise, a 
quality which exists, though less simple, in the 
subject of the present article. Another species, 
the I. parviflorum, a shrub with small yellowish 
flowers, first discovered by Michaux in the 
mountains of Georgia and Carolina, has so 
exactly the flavour of the Sassafras root, that they 
are not to be distinguished by the taste. The I. 
Floridanum forms beautiful thickets in the 
country bordering on the north of the Gulf of 
