BNNEAilDRIA MONOGYNIA. LaurUS, 



icon. Bot. mag. 1471. 



In ]ow grounds, near rivers and on islands : Carolina. 

 ^ . April. V. V. ; v. s. in Herb. Gronov. Flowers 

 yellow ; berries globous, scarier. 

 6. L. foliis integris lobatisque. JFilld. sp. pi. 2. p. 485. 



Icon, Trew ehret. t. Qq tSf /O. Catesb. car. 1. t. 55. 

 Mick. arb. t 



In woods and along the banks of large rivers, frequent 

 in old fields : Canada to Florida. \2 . March, April. 

 V. V. Flowers yellow J berries blue. This valuable 

 tree, in respect to its medicinal properties, grows to a 

 large size in the southern regions, where I have seen 

 trees two feet in diameter ; but from Virginia north- 

 wards it decreases in size, until it becomes a mere 

 straggling shrub. 



V7 



Sassafras. 



353. ERIOGONUM. Mich.Jl. amer. l. p. 246. 



E. caule erecto dichotomo, florum fasciculls axillaribus tomentosum, 

 solitariis sessilibus, calycis laciniis subrotundis obtusis 

 tomentosis, foliis ad genicula caulis sessilibus ternis 

 quaternisve cuneato-obovalibus supra glabris. — Mich. 

 fl. amer. 1 . p. 246. 

 Icon. Mich. I.e. I. 24. 



In pine-barrens of Carolina and Georgia. 1/ . July. v. v.. 

 The whole of this plant, excepting the upper side of 

 the leaves, is covered with a close tomentum or woolly 

 coat J flowers frorii twelve to fifteen collected in a cup 

 or involucrum, white. 

 . E. caule simplici nudo, florum fasciculis terminalibus senceunt. 

 umbellatis pedunculatis, umbella involucrata, calycis 

 laciniis oblongis acutis serlceo-lanatis, foliis radicalibus 

 petiolatis lanceolato-oblongis supra viilosis. 

 On the prairies of the Missouri. Nuttall. 2[. . July. 

 V. s. in Herb. Nuttalt. The whole of this plant, as 

 well as the foregoing, is toraentose, but of a more 

 loose texture, approaching to villous ; the calyx is co- 

 vered with long white silky dovvn ; flowers bright yel- 

 low. In the same country a third species has been 

 discovered, of which I have not materials enough to 

 give a description. 



