. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 402 Sassafras Tree III. SASSAFRAS TREE GENUS SASSAFRAS NEES AND EBERMEIR Species Sassafras Sassafras (Linnaeus) Karsten Laurus Sassafras Linnaeus Sassafras variifolium (Salisbury) Kuntze. Sassafras officinale Nees and Ebermeir HE name of this interesting tree is of Spanish origin. The genus is small, one other species existing in China, though the leaves of many of their ancestors have been found as fossils in rocks of re
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 402 Sassafras Tree III. SASSAFRAS TREE GENUS SASSAFRAS NEES AND EBERMEIR Species Sassafras Sassafras (Linnaeus) Karsten Laurus Sassafras Linnaeus Sassafras variifolium (Salisbury) Kuntze. Sassafras officinale Nees and Ebermeir HE name of this interesting tree is of Spanish origin. The genus is small, one other species existing in China, though the leaves of many of their ancestors have been found as fossils in rocks of recent geologic epochs. It inhabits dry soil, ranging from Massachusetts to Florida. Ontario, Michigan, Kansas, and Texas, sometimes reaching a height of 40 meters, with a trunk 2 meters in diameter or more. The thick brown bark is rough and ridged in irregular layers, even on quite young trees. The young twigs are hairy, but soon become smooth; the buds are ovoid and pointed. The oval or oval-obovate leaves vary from entire-margined to 3-lobed, often with a lobe on one side only, and thus mitten-shaped; they are thin, pirmately veined, when young quite hairy but smooth when fully grown; their stalks are cm. long or less. The imperfect, mostly dioe- cious flowers are yellow and about 6 mm. wide, borne in stalked umbelled racemes at the ends of twigs and open in April or May, Fig. 355. —Sassafras Tree. before or with the unfolding of the leaves; each umbel is subtended by several large bud-scales, which form an involucre to the flower-cluster; the calyx is 6-parted; the staminate flowers have three series of 3 stamens each, about as long as the calyx, or 9 stamens in all, those of the iimer series bearing a pair of stalked glands at the base of the filaments; the pistillate flowers have 6 short sterile stamens (staminodes), an ovoid ovary, and a slender style. The fruit is an oblong-globose blue drupe i to cm. long, seated in the enlarged, bright red calyx-tube. The weak
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