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POPULAR FLORA. 



4. Cherry or Sweet B. Tree, -with heart-ovate and pointed leaves, downy on the veins beneath 

 and a close bark, bronze-colored on the twigs, which are spicy-tasted, like the foliage of Clieck 

 erberry. Common N. -S- lenic^ 



87. SWEET-GALE FAMILY. Order MYRICACE^. 



Shrubs (generally low), with fragrant alternate leaves; and with catkins much as in the 

 Birch family, but short and with only one naked blossom under each scale ; the ovarj 

 forming a little nut or dry drupe. 



Flowers monojcious: fertile catkins round and bur-like : fruit a smooth little nut. Leaves 



lance-linear, pinnatiiid. Fern-like, whence the common name, ( Comptonia) Sweet-Fern. 

 Flowers dioecious: scales of the fertile catkins falling off, and leaving only the small 

 round fruits, which are incrusted with wax, and so appear like drupes. Leaves 

 entire or serrate, {Mynca). 



One species in wet grounds, N., with wedge-lanceolate pale leaves, (-M. Gale) Sweet-Gale. 



One on the sea-coast with lance-oblong, shining leaves, and waxy fruit, {M. ce^rifera) Baybekry. 



88. WILLOW FAMILY. Order SALICACE^^;. 



Dioecious trees or shrubs, with both 

 kinds of blossoms in catkins (often 

 earlier than the foliage) ; the flowers 

 naked (without any calyx or corolla), 

 one sort of two or more stamens 

 under a scaly bract; the other of a 

 one-celled pistil with two styles or 

 stigmas, making a many-seeded pod : 

 the seeds bearing a long tuft of down. 

 Leaves alternate and simple : wood 

 soft and light : bark bitter. — The 

 Willows are of very many species, 

 and are much too difficult for the 

 beginner. 



494. Shoot and catkin of sterile flowers of the Com- 

 mon White Willow. 49S. A scale separated, with its 

 flower, consisting of two stamens and a little gland, 

 magnified. 496. Shoot and fertile catkin of the same. 

 497 A pistillate flower with its scale and gland, maf 

 nified. 



Scales of the catkins entire : stamens 2 to 6 : stigmas short : leaves narrow. 

 Scales of the catkins cut-lobed : stamens 8 to 40 : stigmas long ; leaves broad, 

 buds covered with a resinous varnish, 



(Salix) Willow 

 Scaly leaf- 



{Pdpulus) POPLAO 



