Cnpulifcrc Cory IMS. 4 13 



Hazel, enters so largely into the composition of our copses and 

 plantations, that it deserves mentioning here. From this have 

 sprung the varieties producing the Spanish, Filbert, Cob, and 

 other nuts. There is also a variety in which the large leaves 

 have a purplish blotch in the centre. 



ORDER CVIL MYRICACEJE. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually covered with resinous glands 

 or dots. Leaves simple, alternate, with or without stipules. 

 Flowers monoecious or dioecious, in simple or compound catkins. 

 Perianth none. Stamens 2 to 16, in the axil of each bract. 

 Ovary surrounded by hypogynous scales, Fruit drupaceous, 

 often clothed with fragrant waxy secretions, 1 -celled, 1 -seeded ; 

 seed erect. A small order limited to one genus by some 

 botanists, and divided into two by others ; the species number 

 ing between twenty and thirty. 



1. MYRlCA (including Comptbnia). 



Characterised as above. The name /nvpiKrj was applied by 

 the ancients to the Tamarisk or some other sweet-scented shrub. 

 The species occur in North and South America, South Africa, 

 Atlantic Islands, and Europe. 



1. 3/. Gale. Sweet Gale, Bog-Myrtle, or Sweet Willow. 

 This is the only European species, and it is also a native of 

 Britain. It is a dwarf fragrant shrub from 2 to 4 feet high 

 with deciduous linear lanceolate-obovate toothed or entire ex- 

 stipulate leaves from 2 to 3 inches long. Male and female 

 flowers in separate catkins on the same individual, appearing 

 before the leaves ; male catkins clustered. Found in boggy 

 places and on moors. 



2. M. cerifera. Candleberry, Bayberry, or Wax Myrtle. 

 A small shrub about 4 to 6 feet high with oblong or obovate- 

 lanceolate entire or sinuately toothed exstipulate leaves and 

 scattered male catkins. A native of North America. 



3. M. asplenifolia, syn. Comptbnia asplenifolia. Sweet 

 P^ern. A somewhat straggling irregularly branched small 

 shrub with linear lanceolate pinnatifid stipulate slightly hairy 

 leaves ; lobes crowded, rounded. This is the prettiest and 

 most interesting of the hardy species, growing about 3 feet 

 high, and producing its inconspicuous flowers a little before the 

 leaves. North America. 



