102 PICRODENDRACEAE. 



inserted on the receptacle; filaments short; anthers ovate, 2-celled, thi 

 sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary subtended by 2-8 bractlets; stigmas 

 linear. Fruit a small drupe or nut, the exocarp often waxy. Seed erect. 

 Cotyledons plano-convex. Radicle short. Two genera and about 36 species. 



1. MYRICA L. Sp. PL 1024. 1753. 



Leaves entire, dentate or lobed, mostly resinous-dotted. Staminate aments 

 ctJong or narrowly cylindric, expanding before or with the leaves. Stamens 

 4-8. Pistillate aments ovoid or subglobose; ovary subtended by 2-4, mostly 

 short, bractlets. Drupe globose or ovoid, its exocarp waxy. [Ancient Greek 

 name of the Tamarisk.] About 35 species, widely distributed. Type species: 

 Myrica Gale L. 



1. Myrica cerifera L. Sp. PI. 1024. 1753. 



Cerothamnus ceriferus Small, Fl. Miami 61. 1912. 



A slender dioecious shrub, or a tree, sometimes 12 m. high, with a trunk 

 5 dm. in diameter, the bark gray, nearly smooth. Leaves narrow, oblong or 

 oblanceolate, mostly acute, entire or sparingly dentate, narrowed at the base, 

 fragrant, short-petioled, dark green above, paler and sometimes pubescent 

 beneath, golden-resinous, 2-8 cm. long, unfolding with or before the aments ; 

 staminate aments eylindric; pistillate aments short, oblong; ripe drupes 

 globose, bluish white, waxy, tipped with the base of the style, long-persistent. 



Sandy thickets, coppices and pine-lands, Abaco, Andros. Great Bahama. New 

 Providence. Eleuthera. Cat Island, and Aeklin's Island : New Jersey southward 

 along the coast to the Florida Keys and to Texas ; Bermuda : Cuba ; Ilispaniola ; 

 Porto Rico. Bay-berry. Wax-berry. Mickle-berry. Wild Tea. 



Order 4. JUGL AND ALES. 



Trees with alternate pinnately compound or trifoliolate leaves, and 

 monoecious or dioecious bracteolate flowers, the staminate in long drooping 

 aments, the pistillate solitary or several together. Staminate flowers con- 

 sisting of 3-numerous stamens with or without an irregularly lobed perianth 

 adnate to the bractlet, very rarely with a rudimentary ovary. Anthers 

 erect, 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent; filaments short. Pistillate 

 flowers with a 3-5-lobed calyx or with both calyx and petals, and a 1-celled 

 or 2-4-eelled ovary. Ovules solitary or 2, erect, orthotropous; styles 1 or 2. 

 Fruit a drupe with indehiscent or dehiscent, fibrous, fleshy or woody exo- 

 carp, enclosing the bony endocarp or nut which is 2-4-eelled. Seed large, 

 2^-lobed. Endosperm none. Cotyledons corrugated, Two families, that 

 of the Walnuts ( Juglandaceae) and the following. 



Family 1. PICRODENDRACEAE Small. 



Rough-barked trees, or shrubs, with bitter wood, alternate, slender- 

 petioled. 3-foliolate leaves, and dioecious flowers, the pistillate ones solitary 7 , 

 axillary, peduncled, the staminate in long drooping aments. Staminate 

 flowers each subtended by 3 bracts, the middle bract the larger; perianth 

 none ; stamens many, clustered ; filaments glabrous, shorter than the anthers 



