Myriru. M VllirACK.l';. gj 



aiunnts oLldiig to ovate, 4 to G lines long: nutlets very broadly ohovate, IJ lines 

 long, thinly margined or narrowly winged. — Hot. Mex. JJouiid. 2U4. A. serru- 

 (ata, var. oblonrji folia, Kegel, UC Prodr. xvi^ 188. 



In the Cuyurnaca nionntaiiis, San Diego County, and eastward to New Mexico, and in North- 

 ern Alexico; growing 20 to 30 feet higii. 



4. A. incana, Willd., var. virescens, "Watson. Ihanches grayish brown : 

 leaves more or loss broadly ovate, 2 or ;5 inches long, acute, rounded at base or 

 slightly cordate, acutely doubly toothed, light green and glabrous on both sides or 

 sparingly pubescent: staminate aments rather slender, \\ to 2 inches long: fruiting 

 aments ovate-oblong, 4 to G lines long: nutlets round-obovate, thinly margined, \\ 

 lines long. — A. iiiciDia, \iu\ (/la itoi, Kegel, 1. c. 189, in ])art; Watson, 13ot. King 

 Kxp. 32;}. A. scrnilata, var. rwjosa, Kegel, 1. c. 188, in part. 



From Oregon to the Saskateliewan and southward in the mountains to the southern Siena 

 Nevada and New Mexico ; Ireciuent on tlie eastern sh)j>e of the Siena, and rejtovted by Muir as 

 forming (h-nse thickets ahnig tiic branches of tlie San ,loai|uin, King's and Kern lliveis at an alti- 

 tude of 6,000 to 7,000 feet. It is sehiom huge, usually 8 to 15 feet high. In the Atlantic States 

 it has the leaves nnich more densely pubescent ami hoary, nearly resembling the typical form of 

 the Old World, or sometimes smoother and glaucous beneath. 



Ordeh XCH. MYRICACE^. 



Shrubs, monoecious or dicrcious, with alternate usually waxy-dotted and fragrant 

 leaves, mostly without stii)ules, and llowers .solitary and sessile in the axils of scaly 

 bracts of the axillary sessile ovoid or cylindrical aments; perianth none; stamens 2 

 to IG, sessile, or the filaments somewhat united; ovary with 2 to 4 small scales or 

 bractlets at ba.se, 1-cellcd, 1-ovuled, with 2 se.ssile filiform stigmas; nut small, drupe- 

 like, often waxy ; seed erect, orthotropous, with thin membranous testa and no albu- 

 men ; radicle su[ierior, elongated. 



An order of ehiedy a single genus of 30 or 40 species ; one Ri)ecies European {Mijrica Gale), the 

 rest belonging to North America, S. Africa, and the mountains of Asia and Java. "Wax is ob- 

 tained in abundance from the fruit of several siiecies. 



1. MYRICA, Linn. r>AYnEiiiiY. Wax-Myuti.e. 

 Characters as of the order. 



* Jironarloiis : aments nndrofpjnoua, the- sfavihiate Jimvera hoJow : hradlets viinute 



at the base of the (jlobulav waxy fruit. 



1. M. Californica, Cham. An evergreen shrub or small tree : leaves thick and 

 coriaceous, usually slightly tomentose below, oblanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long, acute, 

 attenuate to a short petiole, serrate above the base: aments simi)le or somewhat 

 compound, 3 to T) lines long; the small very broadly ovate obtuse bracts more or 

 le.ss lacerately ciliate, especially near the base : staminate llowers few ; stamens about 

 10 (G to 15), the filaments united into an exserted jjanicle : bractlets usually 2, 

 oblong, ciliate : fruit i)urple, ))ai»illose, thiidy coated with grayish white wax, 2 

 lines in diameter. — Linn;ea, vi. 535; Lindl. in Journ. llort. Soc. Lond. vii. 282, 

 with fig. ; C. DC. Prodr. xv'\\ 153. 



From the Sacramento to Washington Territory, in moist jdaces or on hillsides. Of close erect 

 liabit and dark evergreen foliage, in the neighborhood of San Francisco sometimes attaining 

 a height of 30 or 40 feet, with a diameter at base of 2 feet or more. 



* * Floivers dioicioiis : bractlets exreeditif/ and adnate to the sitbcomjn-essed 



nahed fruit. 



2. M. Hartwegi, Watson. A dilluse shrub, 3 to G feet high : branches more 

 slender an<l elongated : leaves deciduous, thinner, oblanceolate, 2 inches long, acute, 



