oblanceolate or occasionally obovate, tapering at base into a short petiole, broadly 

 rounded to acute and minutely apiculate at apex, opaque, essentially glabrous and 

 sometimes somewhat glaucous on upper surface, to 14 cm. long and 4 cm. wide; 

 inflorescence either below or in the axils of the leaves; staminate aments to 15 

 mm. long; fruit 3-3.5 mm. in diameter. 



In bogs and along streams in woods and thickets in e. Tex., Mar.-Apr.; from 

 Fla., w. to Tex. and n. on inner Coastal Plain to N. J. 



2. Myrica cerifera L. Wax-myrtle, candle-berry. Fig. 389. 



Shrub or small tree to 12 m. tall, rarely with a trunk to 2 dm. in diameter; 

 young branchlets waxy, glabrous or sometimes pilose; leaves narrowly oblanceolate 

 to cuneate-oblanceolate, tapering at base to short petiole, acute at apex, mostly 

 less than 7 cm. long and to 25 mm. wide, fulvous or yellow-green, heavily 

 coated on both surfaces with resinous dots; fruit 2-3 mm. in diameter. Cerotham- 

 nus ceriferus (L.) Small. 



Along streams, about lakes and in boggy grasslands and wet woodlands in s.e. 

 Okla. {Waterfall) and e. Tex., Mar.-Apr.; from Fla., w. to Okla. and Tex., n. to 

 N.J. and Ark. 



Fam. 45. Leitneriaceae Benth. «& Hook. f. Corkwood Family 



Shrub or small tree to 6.5 m. tall, with very light wood; bark brown and 

 smooth when young, fissured with age; leaves alternate, deciduous, more or less 

 scattered, petiolate; leaf blades entire, thick and firm, prominently veiny, narrowly 

 elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, bright green and shining on upper 

 surface, pubescent on lower surface; stipules wanting; flowers unisexual, male and 

 female flowers borne on separate plants, in few- to many-flowered aments or 

 spikes that appear before the leaves from the axils of last year's leaves; staminate 

 flowers in a conspicuously bracted compound ament, composed of 3 to 12 stamens 

 and without a perianth, the distinct filaments short and the anthers 2-celled; 

 pistillate flowers in a few-flowered spike, solitary in the axils of primary bracts 

 each of which is accompanied by 2 secondary bracts, composed of a single sessile 

 1-ovuled pistil and 3 to 8 diminutive bractlets; fruit a drupe, subtended by a 

 bract, elongate, glabrous, the flesh leathery. 



Represented only by the following American genus. 



1. Leitneria Chapm. 



Characters same as those of the family. A monotypic genus of the southern 

 United States. 



1. Leitneria floridana Chapm. Corkwood. Figs. 390 and 391. 



Leaf blades to 2 dm. long; staminate aments 3-4 cm. long; drupe elliptic, to 

 25 mm. long. 



In brackish or fresh water swamps and thickets in s.e. and s.-cen. Tex., spring; 

 from n. Fla., w. to Tex. and n. to Ga. and Mo. 



Fam. 46. Juglandaceae Kunth Walnut Family 



Trees, monoecious, with alternate pinnate leaves and no stipules; leaflets usually 

 glandular-dotted beneath; flowers unisexual; staminate flowers in aments with or 

 without a calyx adnate to the bract and the two bractlets; pistillate flowers solitary 

 or in a small cluster or spike, with a bract, 2 or 3 bractlets and a regular 4-lobed 



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