TAXONOMY 
Fig. 175.—Two Myrica cerifera trees growing in a field near a brackish swamp 
at Rio Grande, N. J. Photographed by author July 26, 1914. 
linear subulate bracteoles, accrescent, and forming a laciniate 
involucre inclosing the fruit; styles short and dividing into two 
elongated style arms which bear stigmatic surfaces on their inner 
face; ovule orthotropous, solitary, with a basilar placenta and 
superior micropyle. Fruit an akene or ceriferous nut. Pericarp 
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filiform, free or connate at the base into a short stipe; anthers ovoid, 
erect, two celled, extrorse, showing longitudinal dehiscence. Pistil¬ 
late flowers in ovoid or ovoid-globular catkins. Gynsecium of two 
united carpels on a bract. Ovary sessile, unicellular, subtended 
by two lateral bracteoles which persist under the fruit, or by eight 
