346 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



it imparts a peculiar gloss and dazzling whiteness, without injuring 

 in the least any subsequent application of the most sensitive colors. 

 The same purpose serves Saponaria Struthium (Loeffling) of Spain. 



Sassafras officinale, Hayne. 



The deciduous Sassafras-tree, indigenous from Canada to Florida, 

 occurring in dry open woods. Height sometimes to 80 feet; the stem 

 has been known to attain a girth of more than 19 feet at 3 feet from 

 the ground. It furnishes the medicinal sassafras bark and wood, and 

 from this again an essential oil is obtainable. The deciduous and 

 often jagged leaves are remarkable among those of Lauraceae; they 

 are used as a condiment in cookery. The root-bark contains 58 per 

 cent, tannin (Reinsch). The wood ranks also as a material for a 

 lasting dye; for turnery it is easily worked, and proved of great 

 resistance to the influence of water (Dr. C. Mohr). 



Satureja hortensis, C. Bauhin. 



The Summer-Savory. Countries around the Mediterranean Sea. 

 An annual scent-herb, from which an essential aromatic oil can be 

 distilled; it is used also as a condiment. The culture of this and 

 allied plants is easy in the extreme.. This is one of about 100 kinds 

 of plants, which Charles the Great already ordered to be grown on 

 his domains or gardens (E. Meyer). 



Satureja montana, Linn. 



The Winter- Savory. On arid hilly places at and near the Medi- 

 terranean Sea. A perennial somewhat shrubby herb, frequently used 

 as a culinary condiment along with or in place of the foregoing 

 species, although it is scarcely equal to it in fragrance. 



Satureja Thymbra, Linne. 



Countries on or near the Mediterranean Sea. . A small evergreen 

 bush, with the flavor almost of thyme. The likewise odorous S. Graeca, 

 and S. Juliana (Linne) have been transferred by Bentham to the 

 closely cognate genus Micromeria ; they have been in use since 

 Dioscorides' time, though not representing, as long supposed, the 

 Hyssop of that ancient physician, which according to Sprengel and 

 Fraas was Origannm Smyrnaeum or some allied species. 



Saussurea Lappa, Bentham. (Haplotaxis Lappa, Decaisne.) 



Cashmere. The aromatic root of this perennial species is of 

 medicinal value, and by some considered to be the Costus of the 

 ancients. 



Saxono-G-otheea conspicua, Lindley. 



The Mahin of Southern Chili and Patagonia. A middle-sized tree, 

 with fine-grained yellowish timber. 



Scandix grandinora, Linne". 



Countries around the Mediterranean Sea. An annual herb, much 

 liked there as a salad of pleasant aromatic taste. 



