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PRIVET 



It is hardly necessary to say that aggregate fruits like 

 the blackberry are totally different in structure. 



** Berry quite smooth ; purple to blue-black, 



and few seeded. 

 t Ripe berries with waxy bloom, purple. 



Berry with a ring-like disc at its base. 

 Seeds 2 4 in soft flesh, very hard, pyri- 

 form with a longitudinal median groove 

 and spot on the back, and two long curved 

 pits on the front. 



Fig. 143. Privet, Ligustrum vulgare. 1, flowering shoot; 2, a flower, 

 and 3, vertical section through it, enlarged ; 4, fruit, and 5, section across 

 the same; 6, seed (Wo). 



