VOL. II.] 



STRAWBERRY-SHRUB FAMILY. 



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i. BUTNERIA Duham. Trait. Arb. i: 113. pi. 45. 1755. 



[CALYCANTHUS L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1066. 1759-] 



Stamens inserted in several rows. Flowers purple or red. Otherwise as in the family. 

 [Name in honor of Butner or Buettner.] 



The genus comprises 3 species, one additional to those here described occurring on the Pacific 

 Coast. Chimonanthus Lindl. of Japan and China comprises 2 species with yellow flowers smaller 

 than those of Butneria. The species are called Sweet-scented Shrub and Carolina Allspice. 

 Leaves pubescent beneath ; flowers fragrant, i. B. florida. 



Leaves green, often glaucous beneath, smooth or rough above; flowers not fragrant. 2. B.fertilis. 



i. Butneria florida (L.) Kearney. 



Hairy Strawberry-shrub. 



(Fig. 1650.) 



Calycanthus floridus L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1066. 1759. 

 Buettneria florida Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 175. 



1894. 



A branching shrub, 4-8 high, the branchlets 

 and petioles pubescent. Leaves ovate or oval, 

 acute or obtuse, soft-downy or pubescent beneath, 

 rough above; flowers dark purple, about i' broad, 

 with a strong odor of strawberries when crushed; 

 sepals and petals linear or oblong, acutish or blunt, 

 6"-8" long. 



In rich soil, Virginia (?), North Carolina to Georgia, 

 Alabama and Mississippi. Freely planted for orna- 

 ment. April-Aug. 



CalycanlhusferlilisVfa.\t. Fl. Car. 151. 

 Calycanthus laevigatus Willd. 



2. Butneria fertilis (Walt.) Kearney. 

 Smooth Strawberry-shrub. (Fig. 1651.) 



1788. 



Enum. 559. 1809. 



Calycanthus glaucus Willd. Enum. 559. 1809. 

 Buettnena fertilis Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 

 175. 1894. 



A branching shrub, 4-8 high, the branchlets 

 and petioles glabrous or nearly so. Leaves ovate, 

 ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, rough and dark green above, glau- 

 cous and sometimes slightly pubescent beneath 

 or bright green and smooth on both sides; sepals 

 and petals linear or linear-lanceolate, acute; 

 flowers greenish-purple, inodorous. 



In rich woods, Pennsylvania to North Carolina, 

 east Tennessee and Georgia along the mountains. 

 March-Aug. Occasional in cultivation. Fruit re- 

 puted to be poisonous to sheep. 



Family 30. LAURACEAE Lindl. Nat Syst. Ed. 2, 200. 1836. 



LAUREI, FAMILY. 



Aromatic trees and shrubs, with alternate (very rarely opposite) mostly thick 

 evergreen or deciduous, punctate exstipulate leaves. Flowers small, perfect, 

 polygamous, dioecious, or sometimes monoecious, usually fragrant, yellow or 

 greenish, in panicles, corymbs, racemes or umbels. Calyx 4-6-parted, the seg- 

 ments imbricated in 2 series in the bud. Corolla none. Stamens inserted in 3 

 or 4 series of 3 on the calyx, distinct, some of them commonly imperfect or re- 

 duced to staminodia; anthers 2 -celled or 4-celled, opening by valves. Ovary 

 superior, free from the calyx, i-celled; ovule solitary, anatropous, pendulous; 

 style filiform or short, rarely almost wanting; stigma discoid or capitate. Fruit 



