. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 4. BENZOIN Fabric. Enum. PI. Hort. Helmst. 1763. Shrubs (some Asiatic species trees), with alternate entire pinnately veined and in our species deciduous leaves, and dioecious or polygamous yellow flowers, in lateral sessile invo- lucrate clusters unfolding before the leaves, tlie involucre of 4 deciduous scales. Calyx- segments 6, equal, deciduous. Staminate flowers
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 4. BENZOIN Fabric. Enum. PI. Hort. Helmst. 1763. Shrubs (some Asiatic species trees), with alternate entire pinnately veined and in our species deciduous leaves, and dioecious or polygamous yellow flowers, in lateral sessile invo- lucrate clusters unfolding before the leaves, tlie involucre of 4 deciduous scales. Calyx- segments 6, equal, deciduous. Staminate flowers with 3 series of 3 stamens, the filaments of the inner series lobed and gland-bearing at the base, those of the 2 outer series glandless; anthers all introrse, 2-celled, 2-valved. Pistillate flowers with 12-18 staminodia and a glo- bose ovary. Fruit an obovoid or oblong red drupe. [Named from the Benzoin gum, from its similar fragrance.] 1 About 7 species, of eastern North America and Asia. Only the following are North American. Type species: Laurus Bencoin L. Shrub glabrous or nearly so throughout; leaves narrowed at the base. i. B. aestivale. Twigs and low-er surfaces of the leaves pubescent ; leaves rounded or subcordate at the base. 2. B. melissaefolium. -bush. Fig. 1971 Benzoin aestivale (L.) Xees. Spice-bush or-wood. Benjami. Laurus aestivalis L. Sp. PI. 370. 1753. Laurus Benzoin L. Sp. PI. 370. 1753. Benzoin aestivale Xees, Syst. Laur. 495. 1836. Lindera Benzoin Blume. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i: 324. 1857. B. Benzoin Coulter, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 164. 1894. A glabrous or nearly glabrous shrub, 4°-20° high, with smooth bark and slender twigs. Leaves obovate oval or elliptic, 2'-s' long, l'-2l' wide, acute, short-acuminate or some of them rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, pale beneath; petioles 3"-6" long; flowers about i\" broad, bright yellow, fragrant; pedicels about equalling the calyx-segments; anthers oval, mi- nutely emarginate at the summit; ovary a
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