8 MYEICACEAE. 



pubescent beneath: staminate aments 3^1 cm. long, the bracts acuminate: 

 pistillate aments with acute bracts: drupes elliptic, 15-17 mm. long. CORK- 

 WOOD. 



Salt or brackish marshes, near Apalachicola. (Cunt.) Winter-spr. 



Order MYRICALES. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually aromatic. Leaves alternate : blades 

 simple, sometimes toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers dioecious or monoe- 

 cious, the staminate in long aments, each flower consisting of a gynoecium 

 of 2 united carpels on a bract subtended by 2 bractlets and surrounded by' 

 single carpel, the stigma introrse. Ovule solitary. Fruit a cluster of 

 waxy. 



FAMILY 1. MYRICACEAE. BAYBERRY FAMILY. 



Leaves resinous-dotted. Staminate and pistillate flowers in scaly 

 aments. Perianth wanting. Ovary 1-celled. 



1. CEBOTHAMNUS Tidestrom. Trees or shrubs. Leaf-blades entire 

 or merely toothed. Pistillate aments not bristly. Nut globose, drupe-like, 

 with a fleshy-waxy epicarp. Winter-spr. BAYBERRY. 



Shrub, 2-6 dm. tall, with woody horizontal underground stems (rootstocks). 



1. G. pumihts. 

 Trees or shrubs, 1-12 m. tall, without rootstocks. 



Stamens 3 or 4 : nuts 2-3 mm. in diameter. 2. C. ceriferus 



Stamens 9 or 10 : nuts 4-7 mm. in diameter. 



Leaf-blades dull above, toothed, usually pubescent and 



glandular beneath. 3. O. carolincnsis. 



Leaf-blades lustrous above, entire, glabrous and dull green 



beneath. 4. C. inottornx. 



1. C. pumilus (Michx.) Small. Shrub 2-6 dm. tall, gregarious from horizontal 

 rootstocks: leaf -blades obovate to linear-spatulate, cuneate at the base, 1.5-3 

 cm. long or rarely larger, commonly toothed near the apex: staminate aments 

 5-8 mm. long: nuts 3.5-4 mm. in diameter. DWARF WAX-MYRTLE. DWARF- 



CANDLEBERRY. 



Pinelands, n. Fla. and the upper pen. (Gout.) 



2. C. ceriferus (L.) Small. Shrub, or tree becoming 12 m. tall: leaf -blades 

 oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 3-10 em. long, toothed or individually 

 entire: staminate aments 1-1.5 cm. long: nuts 2-3 mm. in diameter. WAX- 

 MYRTLE. CANDLEBERRY. 



Swamps, wet woods, pinelands, and hammocks, nearly throughout Fla. (Cont., IT. 7. ) 



3. O. carolinensis (Mill.) Tidestrom. Shrub 1-3 m. tall: leaf -blades elliptic, 

 oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, 2-10 em. long, shallowly toothed toward the 

 apex: staminate aments 1-1.5 em. long: nuts 4-5 mm. in diameter. BAYBERRY. 



SWAMP-CANDLEBERRY. 



Moist sandy soil or swamps, n. Fla. (Cont.) 



4. C. inodorus (Bart.) Small. Shrub, or tree 6 m. tall: leaf -blades elliptic- 

 obovate or sometimes spatulate, 4-8 cm. long, entire: staminate aments 1-1.5 

 cm. long: nuts 5-7 mm. in diameter. ODORLESS WAX-MYRTLE. 



About pineland-pondsand swamps, n. Fla., fromWakulla county westward. (Cont.) 



Order SALICALES. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate : blades simple, entire or toothed. 

 Flowers dioecious, in aments, the staminate consisting of an androecium 



