LIV. MYRTACE^. 



I. MYRTLE SERIES. 



The best known plant of the Myrtle genns ^ is doubtless the common 

 Myrtle (fig. 277-283), so frequently cultivated in our gardens. Its 



Myrtus communis. 



Fig. 279. Diagram. 



Fig. 277. Floriferous brancli (^). 



Fig. 280. Long. sect, of flower (f). 



flowers are hermapbrodite and regular, with a receptacle in the form 

 of a deep cut in the cavity of which is lodged the adnate ovary, 

 whilst the perianth and androecium are inserted in its margin. The 



1 Myrtus T. Inat. 640, t. 409.— L. Gen.n. 617 Spach, Suit, a Biiffon, iv. 157.— Endl. Gen. n. 



(part).— Adans. Fam. des PI ii. 88.— J. Gen. 6316 (part).— Payer, Organog. 459, t. 98.— H. 



324.— Lamk. III. t. 419.— PoiR. Diet. iv. 404 ; B^, Payer Fam. Nat. U^.—^^ug, Linn (Bas^^yu. 



Supp]. iv. 49.— DC. Prodr. iii. 238 (part).— 397; xxix. 253; xxx. 710.— B. H. Gen, 714, n. 



