JUNE. 177 
Myrica Gatz. Sweet Gale, or Dutch Myrtle. Boggy 
and mossy ground, especially in Scotland, abounds in this 
sweet-scented plant. The inhabitants use it for scenting their 
clothes, and for driving away moths, and in many places 
beds are made of it. The odour is even more powerful than 
that of the Myrtle, whether fresh or dry. In Sweden it is 
put to many useful purposes, being employed in medicine, 
dyeing, and instead of hops for beer; also for brooms. In 
Devonshire, where it grows in abundance on Dartmoor, the 
inhabitants boil it, and the waxy substance, which rises to 
the surface of the water, is made into tapers, which give out 
a very pleasant smell when burning. It has a shrubby 
stem, and narrow leaves, cut at the edges, and broader at 
the top than the bottom. The flowers are not ornamental, 
growing like the hazel-nut in a catkin. 
Diccra. MOoNADELPHIA. 
MoNoOcHLAMYDE. CONIFER. 
JUNIPERUS. (Junzper.) 
Generic Character. Stamens from four to eight on the lower 
edge of the scale. Scales of the fertile catkin imbricated, or 
lying over each other; lower ones barren. 
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