204 



SWEET GALE 



greener. Flowers dioecious, but hermaphrodite flowers may 

 occur: anemophilous. Male flowers with 4 free stamens, 

 and red anthers, but no bracteoles. Pollen powdery. 



Fig. 57. Sweet Gale, Myrica Gale, L. A, shoot with <j , and C, with 

 ? catkins; B, scale with c? flower; D, scale with ? flower, the latter in 

 section ; E, fruit with its two fused lateral bracteoles ; F, the same in 

 section, p. 203 (E and P). 



Female flowers with a small, long, ovoid ovary, sub- 

 tended by the two lateral bracteoles, which grow and 



