DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 49 
15. MYRICACEZ. BAyBerry FAMILY. 
Shrubs with alternate, simple, resinous-dotted leaves ; 
moncecious or dicecious. Flowers in short, bracted catkins, 
perianth none. Staminate flowers 2-10, stamens inserted on 
the receptacle. Pistillate flowers surrounded by 2-6 scales. 
Ovary 1-celled, style short, stigmas 2. 
I. MYRICA, L. 
Shrubs or small trees with the branches clustered at the 
end of the growth of the previous season. Leaves short- 
petioled, entire, lobed or toothed, the margin usually revo- 
lute, without stipules. Perianth none. Staminate flowers in 
- oblong or cylindrical catkins, stamens 2-10, with the fila- 
ments united below. Pistillate flowers surrounded by a cup 
of 2-6 scales, ovary solitary, becoming a 1-celled, roundish 
stone-fruit or nut, often covered with waxy grains. Whole 
plant usually fragrant.* 
1. M. cerifera, L. WaAxBerry, BAyperry. A spreading shrub or 
small tree; young branches downy. Leaves lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, entire or sometimes serrate near the mostly obtuse apex, 
smooth or downy on the veins beneath, tapering into a short petiole. 
Flowers mostly dicecious. Staminate catkins numerous, stamens 4. 
Pistillate catkins small, bracts slightly 3-lobed, scales of the ovary 4, 
fringed with hairs; stigmas 2. Fruit very abundant, incrusted with 
white wax, 1-1 in. in diameter, sometimes persistent for 2 or 3 years. 
Common on wet soils, especially near the coast.* 
2. M. asplenifolia, Endl. Sweet Fern. A shrub 2 ft. or less in 
height, with brown twigs. Leaves fern-like, linear-lanceolate, 20—30- 
lobed, 3-5 in. long and very fragrant. Often monecious. Staminate 
catkins cylindrical. Pistillate catkins globular. Ovary surrounded 
by 8 long, linear, awl-shaped, hairy and glandular scales which en- 
circle the ripened fruit. Nut nearly ovoid, smooth, small, but eaten 
by children. 
16. JUGLANDACEZ. Watunovt Famity. 
Trees with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves without stipules. 
Flowers moncecious, the staminate in long and drooping 
catkins, stamens few or many. Calyx 2~6-parted. Fertile 
