8o 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. 



