DE eke 
SWEET-GALE FAMILY. ous 
bs. 
Tt is readily ed trunk. The 
rich colors of its leaves in the fall add much to the variety and beauty 
of the autumnal scen cir The wood is wenn gly hard and saa 
grained, and is well suited for turned work, and for such purposes 
require great compactness and solidity. 
6. OS’TRY A, Michel. Hor Hornpeam. 
[Greek, Ostreon, a shell, or scale age allusion to the structure of the fruit.] 
SraMINATE Fr. ne nearly as in Carpinus. Pisr & Ft. in terminal, 
loosely imbricated ane with pes peered aah, Svales of the in- 
volucre in se hairy at base, membranaceous, uniting by their margins 
and enclosing 1-2 flowers. Ovary 2-celled; 2-ovuled, cro with 
the entire ne ciliate border of the calyz ; stigmas 2, subsessile, elongat- 
filiform. Fruit in a strobile (or cone), formed of the oe of the 
are membr alesced i 
rowed bark, and — scemecina wi with t 
1. 0. Virgin’ica, Willd. Leaves ed acuminate, sharply ser- 
row cones ovoioblong ; involucres thickly beset with tawny pelatles 
base. 
Viraintan Osrrya. Hop Horn-beam. oo — Lever-wood. . 
Stem 20-40 or 50 fect high, and 5- 8 or 10 i h Leaves 2-4 inches long 
on short petioles. Staminate mch ada bat If Tor 
mostly terminal and solitary, 1 to near 2 inches eon slender and, while young, linear ; 
pairs pepe oe — arnt! Aor bre toe ceolate taw ny cadu ucous bract ; each 
flower contained in a m “aes by the maied seales of the involucre,— 
the sac enlarging and hans a Sealer ke eave ope of the nut, slightly inflated, ovate, 
epg and | forming ates r,at maturity, a pedunculate pendulous cone, about the 
e Com: 
Mookionian New England to Soe Fr. ‘April — May. Fr. Sept. 
Obs. The wood of this small tree is remarkably firm and tough ; 
although neither ¥ very common nor r very important, it po be weil a = 
Orprr LXVIII. MYRICA’CEA. (Sweer-care Paumy.) a0 
Shrubs with alt te, --) — ften aromatic, mostly a leaves and 
etched dealt Seen Gunns Ee eecipr ret often * 
l-celled with a single erect ovule, aecesied d by persistent paper AB kb! a ‘ary nut or some 
times drupe-like and covered with a waxy s ; embryo without albumen. 
1. MYRI’CA, [. Bayserry. 
[The ancient name of some shrub. 
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