PLATE XLIV. 



1. PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS. 



SYRINGA, oil MOCK ORANGE. 



This genus contains plants of the hardy deciduous flowering 

 shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Icosciiidria Moiiogt/nia, and ranks 

 in the natural order oi' Hesperidcd'. 



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

 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 pislillum is an inferior germ : style filiform, 

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

 capsule, 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 thick- 

 ened edge of the partitions: arils club-shaped, acuminate, toolh- 

 leted at the base. 



The species is P. coronarms. Common Syringa or Mock Orange. 



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

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

 ting forth several short branches from their sides: the leaves ovale 

 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 iheir under; stand 

 opposite upon very short footstalks, and have the taste of fresh 

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

 the branches, in loose bunchesj each on a short pedicel; they are 



