. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. STORAX FAMILY. 723 I. Styrax americana Lam. Smooth Storax. Fig. 3310. Styrax americana Lam. Encycl. i: 82. 1783. A shrub 4°-io° high, the foliage glabrous or very nearly so throughout. Leaves green on both sides, oblong, oval or obovate, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, entire, or toothed, 1-3' long, i'-ii' wide; petioles 2"-4&qu
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. STORAX FAMILY. 723 I. Styrax americana Lam. Smooth Storax. Fig. 3310. Styrax americana Lam. Encycl. i: 82. 1783. A shrub 4°-io° high, the foliage glabrous or very nearly so throughout. Leaves green on both sides, oblong, oval or obovate, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, entire, or toothed, 1-3' long, i'-ii' wide; petioles 2"-4" long, often scurfy when young; flowers few in the mostly short racemes or sometimes solitary, 4"-7" long, about the length of their pedicels; calyx and pedicels glandular-dotted; petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, puberulent on the outer surface or glabrous, valvate or but sHghtly overlapping in the bud; fruit sub- globose, puberulent, about 3" in diameter. In moist thickets and along streams, Vir- ginia to Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. Spring-orange. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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