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IV. ATHEROSPERMA SERIES. 



We sluill begin the study of this series by examining Atherosperma 

 Sassafras,' which has been made the type of the genus Boryphora: 



Dort/phora Sassafras. 



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Fig. 357. 

 Thi'oe-ilowered cyme (^). 



Fig. 358. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



Fig. 359. 

 Stamen ( 'j? ). 



It possesses regular hermaphrodite flowers (figs. 357-359). The 



' A. CuNN., Serb., ex Tttl., Mon., 424. Adansonia,ix. 128. — LearosaR-EJcmi.,Nomencl., 



^ Endl., Gen., n. 2022 ; Icon., t. x.— Lindl., n. 2G12, ex Endl. et TrL., low. citi. This genus 



Veg. Klngd., 300, fig. ccviii. — TuL., Mon., 422. — ni;iy ])erliaps be riglitly miulc only a section of 



A. DC, Prodr., xvi. s. post., 642, 676. — II. Bn., the genus Atherospcrma. Its fruit is hut little 



