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Title: The trees of America (microform) : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases ...
Identifier: cihm_57140 (find matches)
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Browne, D. J. (Daniel Jay), b. 1804
Subjects: Trees; Arbres
Publisher: New York : Harper
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Laurus sassafras, Laurier sassafras, Laurier des Iroquois, Sassafras-Lorberbaum, Sassofrasso, Sassafras-tree, Saxifax-tree,
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Laurus sassafras, THE SASSAFRAS-TREE. Synonymes. I LiNN«tT3, Species Plantarum. J MicHAux, North American Sylva. ( Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. France. Germany. Italy. Britain and Anolo-America. XA^I^, tiJeli^rj^S^I'^-KJl^'S^'jS^^^^SPX^^won^ ^^^,0. ,a.ifra., which Is ,ppâed to a V^^:^'&^t^i^^.:^^:^^:iA^^ ^'^^^^^-S!^- ^-^ ^^Ou^on, Birds of America, iiiâ \fsameTd"' B^TySeTbraShS' 21^""'^ ^°'\'r T' ^"""^ are produced from entire or with " TlnW v ^^"°^' ^"^^ ^^^ «nder surface of the leaves, pubescent. Leaves racemes Anth;^ wSt 4 uneaual^celTs "'?n Tf "7^'^«' ^'- ?i°*"^ ^" '°'y^^° conglomerate Hke bodies, hke'^^e'cf tleTa^rL^lrs.-^^^^^^^^^^^ '^'^^"'^^^^ "^« P'«" -^ ' ^^-'l- Description. " If Fever'3 fervid ra?e If r*!"^ i" 'â i? '»i'i"g veina, with care they "*â¦â¦** ***** "Freely 11 rg'd The cool aperient from the fragrant bark Of Sassafraij ;"****⦠***** " To supply The place of faiiiM Cinchona, whose rough brow rtow ruddy, and anon with paleness mark'd, Urinks in its native bed, the genial gales Of mountainous Peru," Thaits op the Abokioinbs, HE Laurus sassafras, in fa- vourable situations, some- ^ times attains a height of fifty ^ ^ ^.^^^^ or sixty feet, with a trunk irom one to two leet in diameter; but ordinarily it does not much exceed one half of these dimensions, 1 he bark of the trunk is of a grayish colour, and is deeply furrowed; and that of the young branches is smooth, and of a beautiful reddish-green. On cut- tmgmto the cortex or true bark, it exhibits a dark, dull-red, much resembling the colour of the Peru- vian bark. The trees, when old, often give birth to numerous suckers, that spring up at little distances trom their trunks, which rarely rise higher than six or eight feet. The leaves of the sassafras are four or five inches in length, alternate and petiolated. At their iinfolding, in spring, they are downy, and ot a tender texture; but become smoother, anrl more firm by age. They are remarkable for t ,, -- I.-.-. !-â.â tne same loxm, with u lobe on one side; and the last, and

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