408 MYRICACEAE 
tillate aments inconspicuously  braeted: 
ovary shorter than the stigma. rupe 
glabrous, the flesh leathery 
1, L. floridana E Shrub, or tree be- 
ate: 
late aments id Nx braets: is ud id 
tie, long.— (CoRKWo 
Swamps,  brackish, fresh, or alluvial, Coastal 
Plain, 2 ba to Tex., "Mo., and 
— The i 
becom i used for floats and stoppers. 
OrpeR MYRICALES — MynicAL ORDER 
Shrubs or small trees, usually aromatie. Leaves alternate: blades 
n sometimes toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers dioecious or monoe- 
cious; the staminate in long aments, each flower consisting of an androe- 
cium ot 2-8 stamens; the pistillate in short aments, each flower consisting 
of a gynoecium of 2 united carpels on a bract subtended by 2 braetlets and 
surrounded by 2-8 scales. Stigmas 2. Ovules solitary. Fruit a nut, the 
epiearp often waxy. 
Faminy 1. MYRICACEAE — BAYBERRY FAMILY 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves resinous-dotted. Aments scaly-bracted. 
Perianth wanting. Ova ary 1-celled. Nut short and thick. Three genera 
and about 35 species of wide geographic distribution. 
Leaves without stipules ; blades entire or toothed : fruit not in a bristly involucre. 
ge 
by the clasping bractlets; fruiting spikes bracted. 1. MYRICA. 
E of the pistillate flowers deciduous: vor wingless, 
very waxy: fruiting spikes cluster-like, bractless. 2. CEROTHAMNUS. 
Leaves stipulate; blades pinnatifid: fruit in a bristly involucre. 3. COMPTONIA. 
1. MYRIC  Dioecious shrubs. Leaf-blades entire or toothed above 
the middle. Aments appearing pen the leaves. Staminate aments with 
closely imbricate bracts: flowers 4 
stamens, without  braetlets. PE 
aments not bristly: flowers with a gynoe- 
cium subtended by 2 lateral bractlets 
which later develop into wings. Fruit nut- 
like, flattened, 2-winged, erowded in spikes 
with the persistent bracts.—Represented 
by the following species only: 
1. M. Gale L. Shrub 1.5 m. tall or aed X 
with dark perm leaf-blades thiek, spatu- 
late to drap or oblong-cuneate, 
mostly 1.5-5 long, serrate near the 
apex, often Rn. pubescent: mature 
