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I. SASSAFRAS. 



(Sp., sasafras, used as a popular name by early French settlers.) 



Trees, with aromatic bark and mucilaginous leaves and twigs. 

 Leaves entire or i-3-lobed. Flowers dioecious, yellow, in umbelled, 

 clustered racemes, unfolding with the leaves. Calyx 6-parted and 

 spreading. Staminate flowers of 9 stamens in 3 rows. Pistillate 

 flowers of an ovoid ovary and 6 abortive stamens. Fruit, an oblong- 

 globose, blue drupe. 



i. Sassafras officinale, Nees. (L., officina, a shop.) SASSAFRAS or AGUE 

 TREE. Becoming a large tree with rough bark. Leaves oval and entire, or 

 i-3-lobed, petioles about i inch long. Drupe about 2 inch long. In dry or sandy 

 soil or in rich woods. 



PAP AVERAGES. POPPY FAMILY. 



Herbs, with milky or colored secretions, which exude when the 

 plants are broken or deeply injured. Leaves mostly alternate and with- 

 out stipules. Inflorescence various, but peduncles mostly i -flowered. 

 Sepals 2-3, falling as the flower opens. Petals 4-6 or more, deciduous. 

 Stamens few to many, distinct and hypogynous. Ovary usually i -celled, 

 many-ovuled. Fruit, mostly a dry, i -celled pod. 



I. ARGEMONE. Prickly Poppy. 

 (Gr., argema, a disease of the eye. Name applied to a plant used as a remedy.) 



Annual or biennial herbs, with yellow secretions and lobed and spiny- 

 toothed leaves. Flowers large and showy. Sepals 2-3, petals 4-6. 

 Stamens many. Placentae 4-6, many-ovuled; stigma 3-6-radiate, 

 dilated. Capsule oblong, prickly, dehiscent at the apex. 



i. Argemone alba, Lestib. (L., albus, white.) WHITE PRICKLY POPPY. 

 Stout and often tall, with pinnatifid or pinnately lobed leaves. Flowers white, 

 sometimes 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Capsules i to 13 inches long, dehiscent at the 

 apex by valves. On dry, open prairies or plains. 



H. SANGUINARIA. Bloodroot. 



(Latin name, from sanguis, blood. Named from the red color of its secretion.) 



Low perennials from horizontal rootstocks ; secretions or latex red. 

 Flower and leaf appearing together in early spring. Leaf rounded and 

 palmate-lobed. Flower white, solitary on a naked scape. Sepals 2 



