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FLORA. 



4. CHIONANTHUS L. 



Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire leaves, and complete conspicuous 

 white flowers, in large loose panicles from the axils of the upper leaves of the pre- 

 ceding season. Calyx small, 4-cleft or 4-parted, inferior, persistent. Corolla of 

 4 linear petals, slightly united at the very base. Stamens 2 (rarely 3), inserted 

 on the base of the corolla ; filaments very short. Ovules 2 in each cavity of the 

 ovary, pendulous; style short; stigma thick, emarginate or slightly 2-lobed. Fruit 

 a usually I -seeded drupe. [Greek, snow-blossom.] About 3 species, the following 

 of southeastern N. Am., the others Chinese. 



I. Chionanthus Virginica L. FRINGE-TREE. (I. F. f. 2845.) A shrub, or 

 small tree, the young twigs, petioles and lower surfaces of the leaves pubescent, or 

 sometimes glabrate. Leaves oval, oblong or some of them obovate, rather thick, 

 narrowed at the base, 715 cm. long; panicles drooping, sometimes 2.5 dm. long, 

 usually with some sessile leaflike bracts, its branches and the pedicels very slen- 

 der; petals 2.5 cm. long or more, 2 mm. wide or less; drupe oblong or globose- 

 oblong, nearly black, 1-1.6 cm. long, the pulp thin. In moist thickets, Del. and 

 southern Penn. to Fla. and Tex. May-June. 



5. LIGUSTRUM L. 



Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire leaves, and small white complete 

 flowers in terminal thyrses or panicles. Calyx small, truncate or 4-toothed, infe- 

 rior. Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform, its tube mostly short, the limb 4-lobed, 

 the lobes induplicate-valvate in the bud. Stamens 2, inserted on the tube of the 

 corolla; filaments short. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous; 

 stigma thickened. Fruit a i-3-seeded mostly globose berry. [The classical Latin 

 name.] About 35 species, natives of the Old World. 



I. Ligustrum vulgare L. PRIVET. PRIM. (I. F. f. 2846.) A shrub, the 

 branches long and slender. Leaves firm, tardily deciduous, glabrous, lanceolate or 

 oblong, short-petioled, 1.5-5 cm - l n g> obscurely veined; panicles dense, short, 

 minutely pubescent; flowers about 6 mm. broad; pedicels very short; stamens 

 included; berries black, 4-6 mm. in diameter. Escaped from cultivation, Me. and 

 Ont. to Penn. and N. Car. Native of Europe and Asia. June-July. 



Family 2. LOGANIACEAE Dumort. 

 Logania Family. 



Herbs, shrubs, vines or some tropical genera trees, with opposite or 

 verticillate simple stipulate leaves, or the leaf-bases connected by a stipu- 

 lar line or membrane, and regular perfect 4~5-parted flowers. Calyx infe- 

 rior, the tube campanulate, sometimes short or none, the segments imbri- 

 cated, at least in the bud. Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform, campanu- 

 late, or rarely rotate. Stamens inserted on the tube or throat of the 

 corolla ; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent ; pollen-grains 

 simple. Disk usually none. Ovary superior, 2-celled (rarely 3~5-celled) ; 

 ovules anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit a 2-valved capsule in our 

 species. Embryo small, usually straight ; endosperm copious ; radicle ter- 

 ete or conic. About 30 genera and 400 species, widely distributed in 

 warm and tropical regions. 



Style 4-cleft ; woody vine; flowers large yellow. i. Gelsemium. 

 Style simple, 2-lobed or 2-divided with a common stigma; herbs. 



Corolla-lobes valvate; capsule didyrnous or 2-lobed; leaves broad. 



Style simple, jointed; spike simple. 2. Spigeha. 



Style 2-divided below; spikes cymose. 3. Cynoctonum. 



Corolla-lobes imbricate; capsule subglobose; leaves linear. 4. Polypremum. 



i. GELSEMIUM Juss. 



Glabrous vines; leaves opposite, or rarely whorled, their bases connected by a 

 stipular line; flowers in axillary and terminal nearly sessile cymes, the pedicels 

 scaly-bracteolate. Calyx deeply 5 -parted, the segments imbricated. Corolla fun. 



