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superior micropyle. Fruit an akene or ceriferous nut. Pericarp 
covered with glandular emergences which secrete wax or fleshy 
emergences, smooth and lustrous or smooth, glandular. Seed 
Fig. 133. — Fructiferous branches of Myrica Caroliniensis (to left) and Myrica 
cerifera (to right) as they appear in early winter. The former species is deciduous, 
while the latter is evergreen. Collected by author at Wildwood, N. J., Dec. 16, 
1914. 
erect, exalbuminous, covered with a thin testa. Embryo straight, 
cotyledons thick, plano-convex; radicle short, superior. 
There are two distinct genera of this family, e.g., Myrica and 
Comptonia, 
