TAXONOMY 
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Myrica N.F. 
Part used Botanical name Habitat 
Bark of root Myrica cerifera Eastern United 
States 
Pig. 177. —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 
