. 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. STORAX 723 I. Stjn"ax americana Lam. Smooth Storax. Fig. 3310. Styrax americana Lara. Encycl. i: 8J. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. STORAX 723 I. Stjn"ax americana Lam. Smooth Storax. Fig. 3310. Styrax americana Lara. Encycl. i: 8J. 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-lanceolatc, acute, puberulent on the outer surface or glabrous, valvate or but slightly overlapping in the bud; fruit sub- globose, puberulent, about 3" in diameter. In racist thickets and along streams. Vir- i;inia to Florida. Illinois. Missouri. Arkansas ind Louisiana. Spring-orange. 2. Styrax pulverulenta Michx. Downy Storax. Fig. 3311. pulverulenta Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 3: 41. 1803. Similar to the preceding species, but the lower surfaces of the leaves, the calyx and pedicels are densely stellate-pubescent or scurfy. Leaves oval or oblong, usually acute at each end and denticulate, short- petioled, 1-2*' long, pale beneath; flowers in short terminal racemes and often in pairs in the axils, 4"-7" long, usually longer than :heir pedicels; petals oblong-lanceolate, jcute, puberulent on both sides or only on :he exterior, convolute or imbricated in the bud; fruit globose, puberulent, about 3" in diameter. In raoist woods and thickets. Virginia to Florida, Arkansas and Texas \pril. 3. Styrax grandifolia Ait. Large-leaved Storax. Fig. 3312. Styrax grandifolia .-^it. Hort. Kew. 2: 75. 1789. A shrub, 5°-i2° high. Leaves obovate
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