OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES 395 



18. Successive stages in the formation of the fruits have been ob- 

 served and studied histologically. A highly interesting detail here is the 

 presence of the Actinomyces organism in beautiful radiate patches that 

 fill many of the cells of the mid-fruit layer. 



19. The structure, mode of origin and wax secretion of the knob- 

 shaped glands covering the ovarian wall have been traced and the inter- 

 mediate character of the fruits of the hybrid, as compared with those 

 of the two parents above mentioned, has been demonstrated. 



New and more exact diagnostic taxonomic descriptions than have 

 hitherto been submitted by authors are presented above and in particular, 

 the diagnostic characters of M. cerifera, M. CaroUnensis and their hybrid 

 have been fullv elucidated. 



SYNONYMS 



For the convenience of reference, the writer presents the following table of techni- 

 cal and common names of the species considered together with their bibliography. 



Myrica cerifera, L. (Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1024). 



Ligustrum americanum, lauri folio, Plumier, Descrip. pi. Americ. 1693; Toume- 

 fort, Institut., p. 597. 



Myrtiis hrahanticae similis carolinensis baccifera, fructu racemoso semili mono- 

 pyreno, Plukenet Almagestum, 1696, p. 250, t. 48, f. 9; Catesby, Carol 1, p. 69, t. 69. 



Lychnochrodyopkoros, Plukenet, Phytogr, tabl. 48, fig. 9. 



Myrica cerifera, IMiller, Gardener's Diet. Ed. 8; Sargent, Silva of N. Am., Vol. 9, 

 p. 87 and plate 459; Britton and Brown's Illus. Flora of the U. S. and Canada, Ed. 2, 

 vol. l,p. 585. 



Myrica cerifera arhorescens, Castiglioni, Viag. negh Stati-Uniti 1790, vol. 2, p. 

 302; Michaux, FI. Bor. Am., vol. 2, p. 228. 



Lacistema Berterianum, Schult., Mant., 1822, vol. 1, p. 66. 



Lacistema alterum, Spreng. Syst., vol. 1, 1825, p. 124. 



Myrica helerophylla, Rafinesque, Alsograph. Am. 9 (1838). 



Ceropliora lanceolata, Rafinesque, Alsograph. Am. 11 (1838). 



Myrica Carolinensis, A. Richard, Fl. Cub. vol. 3, p. 231 (1853). 



Myrica microcarpa, Grisebach, Flor. Brit. W. Indies, p. 177 (1864). 



Myrica altera, C. de Candolle, Prodr. 16, pt. 2, p. 595 (1868). 



Morella cerifera, Small, Flora of S. E. U. S. ed. 2, p. 337 (1913). 



Candleberry, Candel-wood, Candle Tree (Amer. sept., Plukenet 1. c, p. 250). 



Bayberry, Wax Myrtle, (Beringer, Notes on the genus Myrica, Am. Jour. Phar., 

 May 1894). 



Waxberry, Tallow-bayberry, Wax-myrtle, Candleberry, Tallow-shurb, Sweet Oak, 

 Candleberry-lSIyrtle (Britton and Brown, Illus. Flora of U. S. and Canada, Ed. 2, 

 vol. 1, p. 585 (1913). 



Myrica Carolinensis, Miller (Diet. Ed. 8, 1768, n 3). 



Myrtiis brabanticae similis carolinensis humilior foliis latioribus magis serratis, 



