MTRICACE^: 



149 



Usually a shrub, with numerous slender stems, occasionally arborescent and 18- 

 20 high, with a straight trunk 6-8 tall and 2-3' in diameter, and stout branchlets 



roughened with small scattered lenticels, coated at first with dense pale tomenttim, 

 soon becoming bright red-brown, scurfy, and glabrous or pubescent. Bark thin, 

 smooth, nearly white. Winter-buds ovate, acute, nearly \' long, with numerous 

 loosely imbricated lanceolate acute red-brown scurfy-pubescent scales. 



Distribution. Deep swamps near Appalachicola, Florida, near Mobile and 

 Stockton, Alabama, and near Poplarville in the valley of the Pearl River, Missis- 

 sippi. 



3. Myrica Californica, Cham. Wax Myrtle. 



Leaves lanceolate-cuneate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, remotely serrate except 

 at the gradually narrowed base, with small incurved teeth, decurrent on short stout 

 petioles, thin and firm, dark green and lustrous above, yellow-green, glabrous or 



puberulous and marked with minute black glandular dots below, 2'-4' long, ^'-f ' 

 wide, with narrow yellow midribs and numerous obscure primary veins arcuate near 



