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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Official drug Part used 
Myrica N.F. Bark of root 
Botanical name Habitat 
Myrica cerifera Eastern United 
States 
Fig. 134. — Fructiferous branch of Myrica Gale, showing mature pistillate 
catkins and nature of leaves. Collected at the south end of Peak's Island in 
Casco Bay, Maine, September, 1913. 
IV. Order Juglandales.- — Juglandace^e. — A family of apetalous 
exogenous trees — the walnut family — with alternate odd-pinnate 
leaves and monoecious flowers, the sterile in catkins, the fertile 
solitary or in a small cluster or spike. The fruit is a dry drupe with 
