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conglomerate umbells, or cong-lomerate bracteate ra- 

 cemes in E. Sassafras and E. * albi da.— (Filaments and 

 anthers adnate; anthers 2 or, unequally, 4-celled, cells 

 closed by so many vertical valves, which opening- elasti- 

 cally often carry up the pollen in a mass. Stamina al- 

 ways 9; to the base of the 3 interior fertile stamina are at- 

 tached 3 pair of short glanduloid infertile ones, destitute 

 oi pollen. Cotyledones of the seed, excentrically peltate, 

 or laterally attached to the embryon a little above their 

 base, after the manner of all the L^uRiNiS, according to 

 the observations of R. Brown.) 



§ r. Flowers iirnbellate, leaves entire. 



Species. 3. E. aestivalis. I'olygamous: Leaves venose, 

 oblong- acuminate, every where smooth. 4. Benzoin^ 

 (Spice-bush.) Polygamous; Leaves cuneate oboval, under- 

 side whitish and partly pubescent; buds and pedicells of 

 the umbells smooth. 5. Diospyriis. Dioicous; Low, surcu- 

 lose, and virgate; leaves oblong-oval, under side veiny and 

 pubescent; buds and pedicells villous; fruit large. Obs. 

 A running twiggy shrub, 2 or 3 feet high, growing in 

 swamps; leaves opaque, attenuated towards the base; 

 bud scales purple, and as well as the younger branches 

 villous; umbellate clusters sessile, 3 to 5-flowered; per- 

 fect stamina 9; glanduloid anthers of the imperfect sta-- 

 mens large, orange yellow; berries upon thick and dis- 

 tinct pedicells, oblong-ovate, scarlet, larger than those of 

 E. Benzoin; cotyledones large, thick and oily, embryon 

 small, laterally attached nearly at the base of the seed- 

 lobes. 6. genicnlata. rdygamous; Branches divaricate 

 and flexuous; leaves small, cuneate-oblong, mostlv ob- 

 tuse, smooth except on the under side near the base', um- 

 bellets termiiml, conspicuously pedicellate, smooth; an- 

 thers unequally 4-celled. Hab. Uniformly in sandy- 

 swamps, and on the margins of lagoons from Virginia 

 to Florida. From 8 to 12 feet high; Branches grey and 

 smooth, remarkably divaricated, so as to communicate a 

 characteristic appearance to the ponds which they bor- 

 der; leaves about an inch and an half long, often less than 

 half an inch wide. 



§11. Buds producing both leaves andjlowers; racemes con- 

 glomeratey corymbose; leaves lobed. 



7- Sassafras. Dioicous; arborescent; buds, younger 

 branches and the under side of the leaves pubescent; 

 leaves entire, or 2 or 3 lobed, under side prominently 

 veined. (Red Sassafras.) — Anthers unequally 4-celled. 

 The female flower produces the 6 infertile stamina only. 



5i. * albida. Dioicous; arborescent; buds and younger 

 -branches smooth aud glaucous; leaves entire, or 2 or 3 



