52 KEY AND FLORA 
without stipules. Perianth none. Staminate flowers in oblong 
or cylindrical catkins ; stamens 2-10, with the filaments united 
below. Pistillate flowers surrounded by a cup of 2-6 scales; 
. ovary solitary, becoming a 1-celled, roundish drupe or nut, often 
covered with waxy grains. Whole plant usually fragrant.* 
1. M. Carolinensis Mill. Waxperry, Baysperry. A spreading 
shrub or small tree ; young branches downy. Leaves lanceolate or 
oblong-lanceolate, entire or sometimes serrate near the mostly obtuse 
apex, smooth or downy on the veins beneath, tapering into a short 
petiole. Flowers mostly dicecious. Staminate catkins numerous, ~ 
stamens 4. Pistillate catkins small, bracts slightly 3-lobed, scales of 
the ovary 4, fringed with hairs; stigmas 2. Fruit very abundant, 
incrusted with white wax, 4-1 in. in diameter, sometimes persistent 
for 2 or 3 years. Common on wet soils, especially near the coast.* 
2. M. asplenifolia L. Sweet Fern. A shrub 2 ft. or less in 
height, with brown twigs. Leaves fern-like, linear-lanceolate, 20-30- 
lobed, 3-5 in. long and very fragrant. Often moncecious. Staminate 
catkins cylindrical; pistillate catkins globular. Ovary surrounded 
by 8 long, linear, awl-shaped, hairy and glandular scales which 
encircle the ripened fruit. Nut nearly ovoid, smooth, small, but 
eaten by children. 
16. JUGLANDACEH. Watnur Famity 
Trees with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves without stipules. 
Flowers monecious, the staminate in long and drooping cat- 
kins; stamens few or many; calyx 2-6-parted. Fertile flowers 
solitary or in small clusters; calyx 3-5-lobed, minute petals 
sometimes present. Ovary inferior, 1-celled or incompletely 
2-4-celled. Fruit (strictly speaking a drupe) with a dry husk 
inclosing a bony nut.* 
I. JUGLANS L. 
Staminate catkins cylindrical, solitary, borne on wood of 
the previous year; stamens numerous, filaments short; calyx 
4-6-parted. Pistillate flowers single or a few together on a 
short peduncle at the base of the growth of the season. Calyx 
4-parted. Petals 4, minute, epigynous. Styles 2, short, plumose. 
Fruit large, roundish or oval, husk fibrous-fleshy, becoming 
dry, indehiscent; nut bony, very rough.* 
