80 LAURACEAE, 
about 5 bundle-traces in a single series; no stipule-scars; more 
or less stalked brown-silky buds, the terminal naked and elongated, 
the lateral often superposed with the upper globose and early 
losing its few outer scales and becoming brown-silky; simple 
large short-stalked! leaves; perfect lurid large mostly solitary 
polypetalous flowers; and large oblong fleshy fruit with several 
large brown seeds. 
Leaves oblanceolate or obovate, acuminate. A. triloba. 
Family LAURACEAE., Laurel Family. 
A family of moderate size, chiefly tropical, including the 
classic laurel or bay tree, and furnishing cinnamon, camphor, the 
alligator pear, etc.: little used in out-of-door planting. 
BENZOIN. Spice Bush. 
Deciduous aromatic shrubs with pale wood with minute 
diffused ducts and fine medullary rays; slender terete twigs with 
rounded homogeneous pith; alternate rather appressed superposed 
ovoid buds with about 3 exposed scales,—the uppermost one or 
two early developing into small clusters of rounded flower-buds ; 
rather elliptical moderate entire leaves; low crescent-shaped leaf 
scars with 3 bundle-traces; small yellow polygamous apetalous 
flowers in nearly sessile lateral clusters; and red spicy drupes. 
Glabrate. B. aestivale. 
Pubescent. B. melissaefolium. 
SASSAFRAS. 
Deciduous finally large aromatic trees with rather soft brown 
ring-porous wood with the small autumnal ducts in more or less 
evident tangential series; rather slender green rounded twigs; 
continuous roundish pith; alternate low crescent-shaped small 
leaf-scars with 3 bundle-traces; no stipule scars; rounded few- 
scaled buds often developing the first season; petioled entire or 
varyingly lobed moderate mucilaginous leaves; small yellowish 
dioecious apetalous flowers clustered in the axils; and blue drupes 
in red cup-like bases. 
Leaves and young twigs pubescent. S. variifolium. 
Soon glabrate: twigs often glaucous. S. variifolium albidum, 
