An illustrated flora of the 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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Genus 3. LAUREL FAMILY. riowers with 9 or 12 slaminodia and a globose or oval ovary. Fruit a small globose or oblong drupe. (Latin, smooth.] .â \bout 100 species, natives of tropical and warm regions of both the Old World and the New, only the following known in North America. Type species: Glabraria tersa L. _ I.
An illustrated flora of the 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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Genus 3. LAUREL FAMILY. riowers with 9 or 12 slaminodia and a globose or oval ovary. Fruit a small globose or oblong drupe. (Latin, smooth.] .â \bout 100 species, natives of tropical and warm regions of both the Old World and the New, only the following known in North America. Type species: Glabraria tersa L. _ I. Glabraria geniculata (Walt.) Britton. Pond Spice. Fig. 1970. Laurus geniculata Walt. Fl. Car. 133. 1788. Telranthera geniculata Xees, Syst. 567. 1836. Litsea geniculata Nicholson, Diet. Card. 2: 287. 1885. Malapoenna geniculata Coulter, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 164. 1894. A much-branched shrub, with terete smoth zigzag spreading twigs. Leaves oblong, firm, I'-i' long, \'-l' wide, acute or rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous and rather dark green above, paler and puberulent, at least on the veins, beneath, or quite glabrous when mature; umbels 2-4-flowered, sessile; involucres of 2-4 scales; flowers yellow, less than 2' broad; drupe globose, red, about 3' in diameter. uthern Virginia to Florida. 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,
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