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each scale. False-cone formed of hard ligneous scales. Nuts 

 compressed, angular, wingless, 1-seeded. — Etidl. Gen. n. 1811. 



The common Alder {A. glutmosa) is found throughout the colony, appa- 

 rently wild, but whether truly so or not I cannot say. 



Order CXII. SALICINE^. 



Flowers dioecious, in catkins. — Male : Calyx 0. Disk fleshy, 

 glandular, annular or cup-like. Stamens 2 or more, inserted 

 on the torus ; filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled. — Female : 

 Calyx 0. Disk as in the male. Ovary sessile, formed of 2 

 carpels, whose edges are either valvate or more or less in- 

 flexed, 1-celled ; ovules many, ascending ; styles 2, more or 

 less connate. Capsule bivalve, many- seeded, splitting through 

 the centre ; seeds many, minute, bidden in silky hairs of the 

 seed-stalk. — Trees and shrubs, chiefly of the Northern hemi- 

 sphere. The Order consists of but two genera, Fopulus (the 

 Poplar) and Salijc (the Willow). 



1. SALIX, Tourn. 



Male : Bracts undivided. Disk a gland. Stamens 2-3-5 ; 

 filaments free or monadelphous. — Female : Bracts as in male. 

 Styles very short ; stigmas 2-lobed. — Endl. Gen. n. 11)93. 



The Salix Capensis, Thunb., is said to be one of the greatest ornaments 

 of the banks of the river Grariep ; S. hirswta^ Thunb., is a silky-leaved form 

 of the same. 



Order CXIII. MYRICEiE. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious, in simple or branched cat- 

 kins. — Males in filiform catkins. Bracteoles 2, one on each 

 side of the bract, sometimes wanting. Calyx 0. Stamens 

 2-4-6-8, some often abortive ; filaments filiform ; anthers 2- 

 celled, extrorse, basifixed, didymous. — Female : in ovate or 

 cylindrical catkins. Hypogynous scales 2-6. Ovary com- 

 pressed or subglobose, l-celled ; ovule solitary, erect ; style 

 very short ; stigmas 2, elongate, subulate or lanceolate, papil- 

 lose. Fruit dry, indehiscent, or covered with fleshy scales and 

 pseudo-drupaceous, 1-seeded. Albumen 0. — Shrubs, commonly 

 with balsamic odours. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or 

 serrated. Stipules 0. 



