PLATE XLIIL 



1. PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS, 



COMMON PHILADELPHUS. 



Tins genus contains plants of the hardy deciduous flowering 

 shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Icosandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order oi' Hespeiidea. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one-leafed perianthium, 

 four or five-parted, acuminate, permanent: the corolla has four or 

 five roundish petals, flat, large, spreading: the stamina have twenty 

 or twenty-five awl-shaped filaments, the length of the calyx: anthers 

 erect, four grooved: the pistillum is an inferior germ : style filiform, 

 four or five parted: stigmas simple: the pericarpium is an ovate cap- 

 sule, acuminate at both ends, naked at the top by the calyx being 

 barked, four or five-celled: partitions contrary: the seeds numerous, 

 oblong, small, decumbent, arilled, fastened to the thickened edge 

 of the partitions : arils club-shaped, acuminate, toothleted at the 

 base. ' " • ^ 



The species is P. co)'o?iariiis. Common Syringa, or Mock Orange. 



It is a shrub that sends up a great number of slender stalks from 

 the root, seven or eight feet in height, having a gray bark, and put- 

 tino- forth several short branches from their sides: the leaves ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate; those upon the young shoots three inches and a 

 half long, and two broad in the middle, terminating in acute points, 

 and having several indentures on their edges; they are rough and of 

 a deep green on their upper side, and pale on their under; stand op 

 posite upon very short footstalks, and have the taste of fresh cucum- 

 bers: the flowers come out from the side, and at the end of the 



