. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. Y4 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. sentative of the order Myricales, and its only genera are Myrica, the bayberry, sweet bay or sweet gale, and Gomptonia, the sweet fern. Both are shrubs, the foliage delightfully aromatic, the leaves thick and coriaceous. The flowers are dioecious, without perianth, borne in aments, and are succeeded by small bony nut-like fruit, covered with a waxy resinous secretion. These berries, when gathered in quantity, furnish a most excellent wax, from which candles are occasionly manu- factured. The species are n
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. Y4 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. sentative of the order Myricales, and its only genera are Myrica, the bayberry, sweet bay or sweet gale, and Gomptonia, the sweet fern. Both are shrubs, the foliage delightfully aromatic, the leaves thick and coriaceous. The flowers are dioecious, without perianth, borne in aments, and are succeeded by small bony nut-like fruit, covered with a waxy resinous secretion. These berries, when gathered in quantity, furnish a most excellent wax, from which candles are occasionly manu- factured. The species are not numerous, but have a wide distribution, mostly in temperate regions. (See Fig. 61.). Fig. 60.—Tlie Black Willow (Salix nigra) showing staminate and pistillate aments. Original. The tropical family Balanopsidaceae represents another mono- typic order and consists of the single genus Balanops. The plants are of little interest save to botanists. Family Leitneriaceae. Leitneria Family. This family is re- stricted to a single rare tree of the southern United States, Leitneria Moridana, so peculiar in structure that it is made the type of a distinct order, Leitneriales. It occurs, so far as known, only in Florida and Missouri, and is a small tree or shrub with gray bark. 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 Pollard, Charles Louis, 1872-. Washington, D. C. , The Plant World Co
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