TAXONOMY 



315 



Official drug 

 Myrica N.F. 



Part used 

 Bark of root 



Botanical name 



Myrica cerifera 



Habitat 



Eastern United 

 States 



FIG. 177. Fructiferous branch of Myrica Gale, showing mature pistillate 

 catkins and nature of leaves. Collected at the south end of Peak's Island in 

 Casco Bay, Maine, September, 1913. 



IV. Order Juglandales. JUGLANDACE^E. A family of apetalous 

 exogenous trees the walnut family with alternate odd-pinnate 

 leaves and monoecious flowers, the sterile in catkins, the fertile 

 solitary or in a small cluster or spike. The fruit is a dry drupe with 



