Myrica gale
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Myrica gale, Linn. (Gale palustris, Chevalier). Shrub, 1-5 ft.: branches dark brown: lvs. oblanceolate, obtuse, rarely acute, cuneate, serrate toward the apex, dark green and glabrous above, usually pubescent beneath, 1-2½in. long: staminate catkins about ½ in long, brownish: fr. compressed, 3-pointed, yellowish, golden-resinous, in catkins about ⅓in. long, crowded at the end of last year's branches. April; fr. in Sept. N. Amer., south to Va., Mich, and Wash., Eu., N. Asia. H.W. 2, p. 97. B.B. (ed. 2) 1:584. Var. subglabra, Fern. Lvs. glabrous or nearly so.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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