. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. Sassafras variifolium. Sassafras. BENZOIN A shrub with yellow flowers in almost sessile umbel-like clusters, which appear before the leaves. The clusters are com- posed of smaller clusters each of 4—6 flowers and surrounded by an involucre of 4 deciduous scales. Leaf buds scaly. Easily recog- nized by the odor of its broken leaves, which resembles that of benzoin, an oriental gum. B. aestivale. Spice Bush. The flowers are polygamo-dioecious. The fruit is a red drupe. The plant is 2-5 m. high, the leaves being oblong- obovate, pale underneath. Damp woo
. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. Sassafras variifolium. Sassafras. BENZOIN A shrub with yellow flowers in almost sessile umbel-like clusters, which appear before the leaves. The clusters are com- posed of smaller clusters each of 4—6 flowers and surrounded by an involucre of 4 deciduous scales. Leaf buds scaly. Easily recog- nized by the odor of its broken leaves, which resembles that of benzoin, an oriental gum. B. aestivale. Spice Bush. The flowers are polygamo-dioecious. The fruit is a red drupe. The plant is 2-5 m. high, the leaves being oblong- obovate, pale underneath. Damp woods. March-April. PAPAVERACEAE (Poppy Family) Herbs with milky or colored juice. Leaves alternate and with- out stipules. Regular flowers with the parts in twos or fours. Sepals fugacious. Petals 4—12, spreading, imbricated and often crumpled in the buds, early deciduous. Stamens many and distinct. Fruit a dry pod. Seeds Benzoin aestivale. Spice bush. a inflorescence; h, flower; c, leaf. SANGUINARIA A low perennial. Its thick horizontal root-stalks have a red- orange juice. They send up in earliest spring a palmate-lobed. 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 Cowles, Henry Chandler, 1869-1939; Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. joint author. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American Book Company
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