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cong-Iomerate umbclis, or contjlomerate bracteate ra- 

 cemes in E. Sassafras and L". * albida. — (Filaments and 

 anthers adnate; anthers 2%r, unequally, 4-celled, cells 

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

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

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

 taclied 3 pair of short glanduloid infertile ones, destitute 

 of pollen. Cotyledones of the seed, excentrically peltate, 

 or laterally attached to the embryon a little above their 

 base, after the manner of all the Laurinje, according to 

 the observations of H. Brown.") 



§ I. Floivers umbellate, leaves entire. 

 Species, o. E. aestivalis, folyg^amous: Leaves venose, 

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

 (Spictvbush.) Polyg-amous: Leaves cuneate oboval, under- 

 side whitish and partly pubescent; buds and pedicells of 

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

 lose, and virgate; leaves oblonj^-oval, under side veiny and 

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

 A running twiggy shrub, 2 or 5 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. geniculata. Polygamous; Branches divaricate 

 and flexuous: leaves small, cuncatc-oblong, mostly ob- 

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

 bellets terminal, 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. 



§ II. Buds producing both leaves andJlo7i>ers; racemes con- 

 glomerate, 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 prommently 



\eined. (Red Sassafras.) — Anthers unequally 4-celled. 



Tiie female flower produces the 6 iirfertlle stamina only. 

 U. * albida. Dioicous; arborescent; buds and younger 



Dranch?s smooth and glaucous; 'leaves entire, os 2 or 3 



