98 Salicaceae 



inserted on the receptacle ; filaments short, distinct or 

 somewhat united ; anthers ovate 2-celled, dehiscing by a 

 longitudinal slit. Pistillate Mowers with a solitary, 1-celled 

 ovary, subtended by 2-8 hractlets ; ovule solitary, ortho- 

 tropus : style very short ; stigmas 2, linear. Fruit a 

 small oblong drupe or nut, the exocarp often waxy. 

 Seed erect ; endosperm none. 



1. MYRICA L. Wax Myetle. 



Shrubs or small trees, with entire, dentate or lobed 

 mostly resinous-dotted leaves, monoecious or dioecious. 

 Staminate aments oblong or narrowly cylindric ; stamens 

 4-8. Pistillate aments ovoid or suhglohose : ovary sub- 

 tended by 2—4 short bractlets. Fruit globose, waxy. 



1. M. Californica C. & S. Thickly branched evergreen shrub, 

 2-3 in. high; leaves thick, glabrous, oblong or oblanceolate, 

 tapering to an acute apex, narrowed below to a short petiole, 

 (3-12 cm. long, remotely serrate or nearly entire; flowers monoe- 

 cious; staminate aments below the pistillate, 2 cm. long or less; 

 stamens 7-16, united by their filaments; bractlets 2, narrowly 

 oblong, hairy at apex; pistillate aments in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, <>— 10 mm. long; ovary ovate, with 2 exserted styles, red; 

 bractlets minute; fruit brownish-purple, covered with a whitish 

 wax, 4 mm. in diameter. 



Rustic Canyon near Santa Monica, Basse. 



Family 16. SALICACEAE. Willow Family. 



'Frees or shrubs, with simple alternate stipulate leaves 

 anil dioecious flowers in terminal aments. Each flower 

 subtended by a scale-like bract. Perianth none. Sta- 

 mens 2-several, centra] or scattered on a glandular disk. 

 Ovary L -celled ; stigmas 2-1. Fruit a 2-4-valved cap- 

 sule, with numerous comose seeds. 



Bracts fimbriate or incised ; st aim 'lis numerous ; Btigmas I'inn^at i'd. 



I. POPULUS, 



Bracts entire; stigmas Bhorl 8 sw.ix. 



