. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. California Bayberry 211 The trunk is straight and slender, with upright branches. The bark is thin, close, smooth, and almost white. The twigs are stout, densely hairy when young, becoming smooth or nearly so and bright brown. The leaf-buds are ovoid, about 5 mm. long, sharp-pointed. The leaves are leathery, closely and finely punctate, oblong-obovate, ellip- tic-obovate or spatulate, 4 to 8 cm. long, blunt at the apex, n
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. California Bayberry 211 The trunk is straight and slender, with upright branches. The bark is thin, close, smooth, and almost white. The twigs are stout, densely hairy when young, becoming smooth or nearly so and bright brown. The leaf-buds are ovoid, about 5 mm. long, sharp-pointed. The leaves are leathery, closely and finely punctate, oblong-obovate, ellip- tic-obovate or spatulate, 4 to 8 cm. long, blunt at the apex, narrowed at the base, usually quite entire, sel- dom sparingly toothed at the upper end, dark green and very glossy above, dull green with a prominent midrib beneath; the very short leaf-stalk is slightly margined. The flowers are dioecious, opening from March to May; staminate catkins stout, i to cm. long, their scales orbicular or ovate, nearly as broad as long, hairy fringed, the filaments short, united at the base; anthers oblong, sUghtly ig. 173.— or ess y e. notched, yellow, and slightly projecting beyond the scales. The pistillate catkins are slender and elongated; scales loosely imbricated, orbicular-ovate, broader than long, each usually bearing two flowers; ovary ovoid, hairy, the styles 2, bright red, spreading and projecting beyond the scales; the rachis continues to lengthen after flowering, sometimes becoming 5 cm. long. The fruit, which is not abun- dantly produced, is globose, 5 to 7 mm. in diameter, often solitary, its waxy coating thin; shell of the nut thick and bony; seed oblong or oblong-obovoid, sharp-pointed, 3 mm. long, and yellowish 3. CALIFORNIA BAYBERRY—Myrica califomica Chamisso This evergreen tree, also called California wax myrtle, California myrtle, Wax myrtle, Myrtle, and Bayberry, occurs on the Pacific coast from Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, northward to Washington, growing in sand-dunes along salt marshes, or on hillsides, attainin
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