. The natural history of plants. Botany. Hi NAT DUAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. southern United States. It is a shrub the leaves of which remind us of those of the "Willows and Chestnuts; they are alternate, petiolate, accompanied by lateral stipules; oblong, pointed, penni- nerved, entire, tomentose beneath. The flowers .develop before them, on the wood of the branches where the catkins occupy the axil of the fallen leaves. The stamens are somewhat raised with the contracted base of the axillant bracts.^ VI. MYRICA SEEIES. The flowers are equally amentaceous in the Myrecce^ (&g. 217— 225), a
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Hi NAT DUAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. southern United States. It is a shrub the leaves of which remind us of those of the "Willows and Chestnuts; they are alternate, petiolate, accompanied by lateral stipules; oblong, pointed, penni- nerved, entire, tomentose beneath. The flowers .develop before them, on the wood of the branches where the catkins occupy the axil of the fallen leaves. The stamens are somewhat raised with the contracted base of the axillant bracts.^ VI. MYRICA SEEIES. The flowers are equally amentaceous in the Myrecce^ (&g. 217— 225), and are likewise destitute of a true perianth; most generally, Myrica Fig. 219. Female catkin (|). Tig. 217. Toung male floriferoua Fig. 221. Long. sect. Fig. 220. Female tranoh. of female flower. flower 0. as in the indigenous species, Myrica Gale L. (fig. 217—223), they are dioecious and borne on simple catkins. In this species, in the 1 Here perhaps wiU lie placed the genus DidymeUs doubtfully referred by us to the Zanthoxylece {Sist. des 392, note 1), and which with 0. De Candoue {Prodr. xvii. 292), as with Meissner {Gen. JDomm. 256) is perhaps a Myrica. Its carpels, grouped in pairs face to feoe, are organized like those of Leitneria, but its stamens are also in pairs on the common axis of the catkin facing each other. 2 Myrica L. Gen. ed. 1, n. 746 (part.).—J. Gen. 409, 453.—GiERTif. Truct. i. 190, t. 39.—. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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