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ters. Flowers small, green, yellow or rarely whitish, hermaphrodite 
or more or less dioecious, regular calyx alone present as a floral whorl, 
of three to six small sepals. Stamens four to twelve in several rows 
of three to four each; anthers opening by recurved valves (valvular 
dehiscence). Pistil monocarpellary, ovary superior one-celled with 
solitary pendulous ovule, style simple with usually rounded stigma. 
Fruit a succulent berry (Spicebush and “Bacca laurea”) or a suc- 
culent drupe (Sassafras). 
