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; 2nd ed. . Genus i. LAUREL FAMILY. 133 Family 35. LAURACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 200. 1836. Laurel Family. Aromatic trees and shrubs, with simple, alternate (very rarely opposite)mostly thick evergreen or deciduous, punctate exstipulate leaves. Flowers small,perfect, polygamous, dioecious, or sometimes monoecious, usually fragrant, yellowor greenish in panicles, corymbs, rac
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; 2nd ed. . Genus i. LAUREL FAMILY. 133 Family 35. LAURACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 200. 1836. Laurel Family. Aromatic trees and shrubs, with simple, alternate (very rarely opposite)mostly thick evergreen or deciduous, punctate exstipulate leaves. Flowers small,perfect, polygamous, dioecious, or sometimes monoecious, usually fragrant, yellowor greenish in panicles, corymbs, racemes or umbels. Calyx 4-(5-partcd, the seg-ments imbricated in 2 series in the bud. Corolla none. Stamens inserted in 3or 4 series of 3 on the calyx, distinct, some of them commonly imperfect orreduced to staminodia; anthers 2-celled or 4-celled. opening by valves. Ovarvsuperior, free from the calyx, i-celled; ovule solitary, anatropous, pendulous;style filiform or short, rarely almost wanting: stigma discoid or capitate. Fruit ai-seeded drupe or berry. Endosperm of the seed none. Cotyledons plano-convex,accumbent. About 40 genera and probably 1000 species, widely distributed in tropical regions; a few in thetemperate zon
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