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COMPTONIA ASPLENIFOLTA. 



•English Name— SHRTJBBY S WEETFERN. 



■French Name — Comptonier odorant. 



^German Name — Streifenfarren. 



Officinal Names— Ccmptonia, Dtilcifilix folia. 



Vulgar Names — -Sweet-fern, Sweet-bush, Sweet- 

 ferry, Fern-bush, Fern-gale, Spleenwort-bush, &c. 



Synonyms — Liquidamhar peregrmum 4' X. osple- 

 nifolia of Linnaeus. My rica asphm folia (^xonovim. 



Authorities— Linnseus, Alton, Michaux, Pursh, 



6choepf, B. Barton, W. Barton, M. M. fig. 19, &c. 



Genus Comptonia — Monoical, amentaceous — M. 

 H. in long cylindrical catkins, scales one flowered, 

 perigone two-leaved, three forked stamina, six anthers. 



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F. fl, in globular inferior catkins, scales one flowered, 

 perigone six leaved, one pistil, two ^iyX^Sj fruit ovate, 

 e valve, one-seeded nwt or achene* 



Species C- Asplenifolia — Shrubby, leaves crowd- 

 ed, sessile, narrow lanceolate, alternately crenate-si- 



nuate. 



DESCRIPTION— A small shriib from two to five 

 feet high, with many crooked branches and long hori- 

 zontal roots — Leaves alternate, crowded, sessile, with 

 two smdll oval acute stipules at the base, from three to 

 "five inches long, 'half an inch broad, acute at both 



ends, with a strong niiddle nerve ,' each side regular- 



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