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Dicotyledons with Incomplete Flowers . 
Natural Order 
MYRICACE JE. Tab. g 3 . 
Diagnosis. —Aromatic shrubs with alternate resinous glandular leaves. 
Flowers spicate, unisexual. Perianth wanting in the staminate flower. 
Ovary free, i-celled, with a solitary erect ovule. 
Distribution. —A very small but widely dispersed Natural Order. Several species occur at the 
Cape of Good Hope, in Temperate and Tropical America and India. The only British species, Sweet 
Gale (Myrica Gale), grows in boggy moorland throughout the cooler parts of the North Temperate 
and Arctic zones. 
One British Genus ; Species, i. 
USES, &c.—The small fruits of several species, but more especially of M. cerifera and M. corclifolia of North 
America and the Cape of Good Hope respectively, are covered with a waxy excretion, collected in small quantities 
as a substitute for tallow. The fruit of the Himalayan M. sapida, the size of a cherry, covered with closely-packed 
radiating cells filled with coloured agreeably acid juice, is edible. 
Natural Order 
CU PULI FERAL Tab. 84. 
Diagnosis. —Trees with alternate stipulate leaves. Flowers unisexual, the 
staminate in deciduous spikes or heads. Ovary inferior, with two or more 
cells. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous. 
