684 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Synonymes. Cornus m&s odorata, folio trifido, margine plano. Sassafras dicta, Pluk. Alon. 120 t, 222. 
f. 6.3 Sassafras arbor, ex Florida, ficulneo folio, Bauk. Pin. 431.; Sassafras sp. C. G. Nees Vou 
Esenbeck ; Pérsea Sassafras Spreng.; Laurier Sassafras, I’y7.; Sassafras Lorbeer, Ger.; Sas- 
sofrasso, Ital. 
Engravings. Catesb. Car., 1. t. 55.; N. Du Ham., 5. t. 114.; plates in Arb. Brit., Ist ed. vol. vii. ; 
and our jig. 1333. ’ 
Spee. Char., §c. Sexes dicecious. Arborescent. Leaves and flowers pro- 
duced from the same buds. Buds, younger branches, and the under surface 
of the leaves, pubescent. Leaves entire, or with 2—3 lobes. Veins pro- 
minent on the under side. Flowers in corymbose conglomerate racemes. 
Anthers with 4 unequal cells. In the female flower, additionally to the pistil, 
are 6 gland-like bodies, like those in the male flowers. (Nuét.) A decidu- 
ous tree. South Carolina, Height 40 ft. to 50 ft. Introduced in 1633. 
Flowers greenish yellow, slight, odoriferous ; April and May. Berries 
bright deep blue, contained in small dark red cups; ripe in September. 
The sassafras tree often grows, even in England, to the same height as in 
America. The leaves, which vary very much in size and shape, are covered, 
when they first appear, with a soft woolly down; they are generally deeply 
lobed, on long footstalks, and of a pale green ; they fall off early in autumn of 
Pee 
1333. L, Sdssafraa. 
an intense red and yellow. Any free soil, rather moist thav dry, will suit this 
species, which is generally propagated from imported seeds. These should be 
sown, or put in a rot-heap, as soon as received, as they remain a year, and 
sometimes two or three years, in the ground, before they come up. It may 
also be propagated by cuttings of the roots, or by suckers, which the roots of 
