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without stipules. Perianth, none. Staminate flowers in oblong 

 or cylindrical catkins ; stamens 2-10, with the filaments united 

 below. Pistillate flowers surrounded by a cup of 2-6 scales; 

 ovary solitary, becoming a 1-celled, roundish drupe or nut, often 

 covered with waxy grains. Whole plant usually fragrant.* 



1. M. Carolinensis Mill. Waxberry, Bayberry. A spreading 

 shrub or small tree ; young branches downy. Leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire or sometimes serrate near the mostly obtuse 

 apex, smooth or downy on the veins beneath, tapering into a short 

 petiole. Flowers mostly dioecious. Staminate catkins numerous, 

 stamens 4. Pistillate catkins small, bracts slightly 3-lobed, scales of 

 the ovary 4, fringed with hairs ; stigmas 2. Fruit very abundant, 

 incrusted with white wax, i-i in. in diameter, sometimes persistent 

 for 2 or 3 years. Common on wet soils, especially near the coast.* 



2. M. asplenifolia L. Sweet Fern. A shrub 2 ft. or less in 

 height, with brown twigs. Leaves fern-like, linear-lanceolate, 20-30- 

 lobed, 3-5 in. long and very fragrant. Often monoecious. Staminate 

 catkins cylindrical; pistillate catkins globular. Ovary surrounded 

 by 8 long, linear, awl-shaped, hairy and glandular scales which 

 encircle the rij)ened fruit. Nut nearly ovoid, smooth, small, but 

 eaten by children. 



16. JUGLANDACE^. Walnut Family 



Trees with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves without stipules. 

 Flowers monoecious, the staminate in long and drooping cat- 

 kins ; stamens few or many ; calyx 2-6-parted. Fertile flowers 

 solitary or in small clusters ; calyx 3-5-lobed, minute petals 

 sometimes present. Ovary inferior, 1-celled or incompletely 

 2-4-celled. Fruit (strictly speaking a drupe) with a dry husk 

 inclosing a bony nut.* 



I. JUGLANS L. 



Staminate catkins cylindrical, solitary, borne on wood of 

 the previous year; stamens numerous, filaments short; calyx 

 4-6-parted. Pistillate flowers single or a few together on a 

 short peduncle at the base of the growth of the season. Calyx 

 4-parted. Petals 4, minute, epigynous. Styles 2, short, plumose. 

 Fruit large, roundish or oval, husk fibrous-fleshy, becoming 

 dry, indehiscent ; nut bony, very rough.* • 



