324 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Stamens 2-8, filaments somewhat anita! bale beneath a scalelike 
bract with a pair of bractlets. egies mall ovoid aments, 
Ov ith 3 scales at its base and 2 "hen ‘ike stigmas. Fruit 
small Craps re covered with: wax-like grains. Leaves deciduous. or 
evergreen, more or less serrate 
1 M. perif¢ era, L. reeves oblong anes, toothed towards the apex 
or entire, shining and r —dotted o Moby sides; sterile aments 
loose, ri bracts naked ; fruit Sheree distine 
Wax-searine Myrica. Bayberry. Wax-m aoa 
Shrub 3-8 feet high, orn branche an a 2- aoe inches long and from 34 an inch to 
nearly an inch wi @, pubes ent under Flowers appearing before the leaves are 
novelas expanded. "Sterile Cassa bout % mn ner long. "Nuts about the size of a pepper-corn 
th itish dry wax. ; 
may ple along the Sea-coast and Lake Erie. FT. May. Fr. Aug.—Sept. 
Obs. The foliage of this shrub as when praised, ab ianennly fragrant, 
In New England the wax which invests the berr collected in con- 
siderable quantities ; it is itstnes by boiling "the “hegries in aitiny 
when the wax _— nd rises to the su Under the name of Bay- 
berry Tallo’ used, in the ral distr cts at theeast, to make 
— ether aon or mixed beers tallow ; it is also employed in soap- 
great quantities are c Banat for a n apparently insignificant 
‘ike, Tho stiffening af the ends of circular or solar lamp wicks. 
other species, the oa re Gale (M. Gale, L.), is ov found maceege the 
borders of ponds, but is has no important uses. mp aspleni 
fo'lia, Ait., the Swtet Fern—well known for its Tere like @ foliage and 
e odor , bel to this order. infusion of the leaves 
tr ~Faing” in dysentery, and the dried leaves afford ma 
Juvenile cigars. 
Orper LXIX. BETULA’CEZ. (Bircu Famty.) 
Trees or shrubs with alternate simple leaves, deciduous stipules and monecious petarsertd - 
scaly aments ; bracts 2-3-flowered ; involucre none ; ovary 2-celled, 2-ovuled, becoming 
compressed, often winged, dry and indehiscent L-seeded nut. 
