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BOG MYRTLE 



Small bushes rarely over 1 5 feet high. 

 Foliage, shoots and cortex, with more 

 or less pronounced odour on rubbing 

 or bruising, in part due to glandular 

 hairs. 



Fig. 125. Myrica Gale, Bog Myrtle. A, shoot with <? , and C, with 

 ? catkins ; B, scale with <? flower ; D, scale with ? flower, the latter in 

 section ; E, fruit with its two fused lateral bracteoles ; F, the same in 

 section (E and P). 



$ Odour resinous, fragrant. Tivigs 

 red-brown, or yellowish, passing to 



