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LXXXVI. PIPEEACBiE. Pepper Family. 



523. SAURURUS, Linn. (LIZARD'S TAIL) 



(1918.) S. cernuus, Linn. 



Eathei- local in Ontario, but abundant where found. Growing in 

 great profusion in mud along the JSTation Eiver at Casselman on the 

 Canada Atlantic Eailway, 40 miles from Ottawa. (Mdcoun<& Fletcher.) 

 On Charles Island, above Niagara Palls. (Burgess.) Muddy places, 

 Chippewa and Maiden. (Maclagan.) Mud flats at the mouth of the 

 Bayfield river, below Goderich, Lake Huron. (John Gibson.) 



LXXXVII. LAUEINE^. Laurel Familt. 



524. SASSAFRAS, Nees. (SASSAFRAS.) 



(1919.) S. officinale, Nees. 



Laurus Sassafras, Linn. Pursh. Fl. I., 277. 

 In thickets as small shrubs at the mouth of the Humber, Toronto ; 

 abundant in the forest around Queenston Heights and becoming twenty 

 inches in diameter ; evidently common all along Lake Erie in the foi-est 

 back from the lake ; abundant at Pelee Point, Essex Co. (^Macoun.) 

 At Ancaster and on Prince's Island, also in East Flamboro', between 

 the Waterdown Eoad and Burlington Bay. (Logie dk Buchan.) Com- 

 mon in the Niagara district. (Maclagan.) At the Whirlpool, Niagara 

 Falls, and Point Abino, Lake Erie. (^David F. Day.) Sandy woods 

 near Toronto and Mount Pleasant, Brant Co., Ont. {Burgess^ 



525. LINDERA, Thunb. (WILD ALLSPICE.) 



(1920.) L. Benzoin, Meisner. Spice Bush. 

 Benzoin odoriferum, Nees. Hook. Fl. II., 137. 

 Laurus Benzoin, Linn. Pursh. Fl. I., 276. 

 L. Pseudo-Benzoin, Michaux Fl. I., 243. 



In boggy ground along the base of the hills four miles north of 

 Trenton ; also around springs in numerous places, Quaker Valley, near 

 Wooler, and half a mile north of Colborne on the road to Castleton, 

 Northumberland Co., Ont. ; forming a small tree in the woods around 

 Queenston Heights and on Pelee Point, Essex Co., Ont. ; also in low 

 woods, Eoyston Park, Owen Sound. (Macoun.) The Dell, Ancaster, 

 near Hamilton. (I/ogie & Buchan.) Chippewa and Maiden. [Maclagan.) 

 Low woods, near London, Ont. (Burgess.) English's Woods and else- 

 where near London. (Saunders.) 

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