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Title: American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings (Volume 3)
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 Annin, William B., 1791?-1839, engraver Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864, former owner Annin & Smith, engraver Cummings and Hilliard, publisher Hilliard and Metcalf, printer
Subjects: Plants, Medicinal Phytotherapy
Publisher: Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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Barren flower. Fig. 4. Fertile flower. Fig. 5. Fetal. Fig. 6. Stamens and rudiment of a style in the barren flower. Fig. 7. Germ, style and abortive stamens in the fertile flower. MYRICA CERIFERA. Wax Myrtle, PLATE XLIIL Almost every region of the United Statesproduces varieties of the Wax myrtle. Michauxconsiders them all as belonging to one species, aconclusion which is warranted by the great num-ber of intermediate sizes, and forms of leaf, whichmay he observed between the different extremes.Pursh, however, has chosen to distinguish threespecies which bear wax, and which he namescerifera after Linnaeus, Caroliniensis from Will-denow, and Pennsylvanica from Lamarck. TheWax myrtle or Bayberry, as it is often called,which is common in New England, varies inheight from one to seven or eight feet. It isfound in every kind of soil from the borders ofswamps to the tops of barren hills, and is verymuch influenced in its size and appearance, bythe place in which it happens to grow. /A SIM/
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^ ft : . /& fffYf rr r//rrrr WAX MYRTLE. 33 The genus Myrica belongs to the class Bioeciaand order Tetrandria. It is also ranked amongthe Amentaceoe of Linnseus and Jussieu. The generic character consists in an imbri-cated anient; the scales without a corolla; thebarren flowers containing four anthers, the fertileones two styles. Fruit, one seeded,—The spe-cific character, as given by Michaux, is as follows.Leaves wedge-lanceolate, with a few serratures attop; barren aments lax ; fruit spherical, naked,distinct. The Wax myrtle is found bearing fruit atevery size, from the height of one foot, to six oreight. In Louisiana, it is said to grow to twelvefeet. The top is much branched, and coveredwith a grayish bark. The leaves are wedge-lanceolate, varying in width, sometimes entire,but more frequently toothed, particularly towardthe end. They are somewhat pubescent, a littlepaler beneath, and generally twisted, or revolutein their mode of growth. They are inserted in ascattered mann

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