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filiform, free or connate at the base into a short stipe; anthers ovoid, 

 erect, two celled, extrorse, showing longitudinal dehiscence. Pistil- 

 late flowers in ovoid or ovoid-globular catkins. Gynsecium of two 

 united carpels on a bract. Ovary sessile, unicellular, subtended 

 by two lateral bracteoles which persist under the fruit, or by eight 



PIG. 175. Two Myrica cerifera trees growing in a field near a brackish swamp 

 at Rio Grande, N. J. Photographed by author July 26, 1914. 



linear subulate bracteoles, accrescent, and forming a laciniate 

 involucre inclosing the fruit; styles short and dividing into two 

 elongated style arms which bear stigmatic surfaces on their inner 

 face; ovule orthotropous, solitary, with a basilar placenta and 

 superior micropyle. Fruit an akene or ceriferous nut. Pericarp 



