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OLEACEjE. (OLIVE FAMILY.) 
constitutes the distinct tribe Fraxine^e, remarkable for its 
2 - 4-petalous or apetalous and polygamous flowers, while 
Chionanthus has seeds without albumen ! 
Synopsis. 
* Fruit a drupe or berry. Leaves simple. 
1. Ligustrum. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla funnel-form, 4-lobed. 
2. Chionanthus. Calyx 4-parted, small. Corolla of 4 almost dis¬ 
tinct long petals. 
* * Fruit a kind of samara. Leaves odd-pinnate. 
3. Fraxinus. Calyx 4-cleft or none. Corolla of 2 or 4 petals, or 
often none. 
1. UIGUSTRUM, Tourn. Privet. 
Calyx short tubular, 4-toothed, deciduous. Corolla funnel- 
form, 4-lobed; the lobes ovate, obtuse. Stamens 2, on the tube 
of the corolla, included. Stigma 2-cleft. Berry spherical, 2- 
celled, 2— 1-seeded. — Shrubs with entire leaves on short petioles, 
and small white flowers in terminal thyrsoid panicles. (The clas¬ 
sical name.) 
L U. vulgare, L. (Common Privet or Prim.) Leaves el¬ 
liptical-lanceolate, smooth, thickish, deciduous. — Introduced from 
Europe, used for low hedges: naturalized by the agency of birds inE. 
New England and New York. May, June. — Berries black. 
2. CHI OUT A NT HUS, L. Fringe-tree. 
Calyx 4-parted, very small, persistent. Corolla of 4 long and 
linear petals which are barely united at the base. Stamens 2, on 
the very base of the corolla, very short. Stigma notched. Drupe 
fleshy, globular, becoming 1-celled and 1-seeded. Albumen none. 
Cotyledons large and thick. — Low trees or shrubs, with decidu¬ 
ous and entire petioled leaves, and delicate flowers in loose and 
drooping graceful racemes or panicles. (Name from snoW ’ 
and avOosy blossom , alluding to the light snow-white clusters of 
flowers.) 
Virginica, L. Leaves oval, oblong, or obovate-lanceo 
late, smoothish or rather downy, veiny ; flowers on slender pedice j 
drupe purple, with a bloom. — River-banks, S. Pennsylvania and 
southward : very ornamental in cultivation. June.-—Petals about 
long, narrowly linear, acute, rarely 5-6 in number. 
