. The natural history of plants. Botany. 246 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Myrica {Camptonia) bracts there is a rudimentary flower very imperfectly developed, and sometimes described as a gland or bud. In many American and Cape species, the female flower is surrounded by three or four bracteoles, sometimes resembling a small calyx. These appendages may also be observed around the base of the stamens, as in M. nagi,^ a Japanese plant, and in many Mexican and Columbian species. In some others from the same countries, and in M. (Ethiopica, the flowers are monoecious, and those of the
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 246 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Myrica {Camptonia) bracts there is a rudimentary flower very imperfectly developed, and sometimes described as a gland or bud. In many American and Cape species, the female flower is surrounded by three or four bracteoles, sometimes resembling a small calyx. These appendages may also be observed around the base of the stamens, as in M. nagi,^ a Japanese plant, and in many Mexican and Columbian species. In some others from the same countries, and in M. (Ethiopica, the flowers are monoecious, and those of the two sexes are found united in the same catkin. In such case, -p-^ 225. Long. sect. Fig. 224. Female flower the males, in goodly number, of female flower. with bracts (f). occupy the lower portion of the axis of the inflorescence and its ramifications, and the females the summit. The latter, however, is simple; whilst in the Asiatic species, and in M. Fay a, a plant of the Canaries, Madeira, the Azores, and the Spanish peninsula, for which it has also been proposed to establish a distinct genus,^ the male catkins are compound, and represent each one of the divisions, sometimes pretty numerous, of a ramified cluster. The male flowers are not, as in many other sections of the genus, accompanied by bracteoles. The genus Myrica includes about thirty-five species,^ and inhabits all parts of the world, chiefly the temperate regions. This family, still perhaps heterogeneous with the limits here assigned to it, was still more so till recently. It was established by Adanson, in 1763, under the family name of GastaneoB^ With him it comprised only three sections, of which the flrst only corresponds ^ Type of the g. Nageia (GiEKTN. Fruct. i. 191, t. 39, fig. 8). 2 Fat/a Webb, Fht/t. Canar. iii. 372. 3 L. Spec. 1418 {Liquidambar), 1453 ; Mantiss. 298.—Thumb. Fl. Jap. 76; Fl. Cap. (ed. Sch.), 153,158.—W. Spec. 746.—Jacq. Ic. Sar. t. 625; Fragm. ii. t. 1, fig. 4.—Dtjham. Arbr. ed. 2, t
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