COMPTONIA 



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Boundary and the north shore of Lake Superior, south to Carleton county. 

 Distributed from Labrador to New England and along the Great Lakes 

 to Minn., south in the mountains to Va., also in Europe and Asia. Flow- 

 ers in May and June, fruit ripe in August. 



Comptonia Banks 1791 

 (Named for Bishop Compton of Oxford) 



A low branching shrub; leaves narrowed, deeply pinnatifid, with 

 stipules, young foliage pubescent; flowers in catkins, monoecious or dioe- 

 cious, staminate catkins cylindric, stamens 4-8 in the axils of the bracts ; 

 pistillate catkins ovoid or globose, borne below the staminate catkins in 



Comptonia peregrina 



Myrica Gale 



