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III. TETRANDRIA. 



280. MYRICA. 



I. M. Gale, stem shrubby, 3 or 4 feel high ; leaves lanceolate, 

 serrated, tapering and entire at the base, besprinkled with resi- 

 nous dots ; catkins axillary, with pointed scales. Sweet Gale. 



Hal. Bogs and moorish ground, rare. I have omitted to 

 mark the habitat of my specimen. Haiden dean ? May, 



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In Isla and Jura, and in Wales, the people lay branches ot 

 this shrub in their beds, and between their linen, to give 

 them a fine scent, and drive away moths, for the leaves 

 and berries, when bruised, exhale a fragrance from their 

 resinous dots, delightful to our senses, but apparently 

 very noisome to insects. In northern countries it was 

 formerly used instead of hops ; and the cones boiled in 

 water will yield a scum like bees wax, capable of being 

 made into candles, similar to those which the Americans 

 make of the berries of M. cerifera, or candle-berry myrtle. 

 LTGHTFOOT. 



IV. OCTANDRIA, 

 281. POPULUS. 



1, P. alba, leaves lobed and toothed, somewhat heart-shaped at 

 the base, snow-white and densely downy beneath ; fertile catkins 

 ovate ; stigmas 4. White Poplar. 



Hab. In plantations frequent. March. ? 



2. P. tremula, leaves nearly orbicular, toothed, smooth on 

 both sides, their stalks compressed ; young branches hairy ; stig- v 

 mas 4, erect, auricled at the base. Aspen. 



Hab. In woods frequent. March, April. ?} 

 The leaves are of a fine smooth dark green, with a narrow 



