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serratures, smooth on both sides, shining above ; nerves beneath scarcely 

 pubescent ; flowers 6-cIeft ; fertile ones axillary, subsessile ; sterile scattered, 

 pedunculate. 



In swamps. N. Y. W. to Miss. July. li—Stem 6-—8 feet high. Leaves 

 2J inches long. Fruit large, red. The characters of this species do not seem 

 yet to be well ascertained. Smooth Winterherry. 



3. P. glaber Linn. : leaves evergreen, wedgeform, lanceolate, coriaceous, 

 smooth and shining, somewhat toothed at the extremity ; pedicels axillary, 

 subsolitary, mostly 3-flowered. 



Swamps. N. Y. to Car. July. }i.—Stem 3 — i feet high, much branched. 

 Leaves crowded, about an inch and a half long. Flowers white. Fruit globose, 

 black and shining. Evergreen Winterherry. InJAerry. 



Order LXXVII. OLEACE^.— Oliveworts. 

 Flowers monoclinous, sometimes dioecious. Calyx 4-lobed 

 or 4-tootlied, persistent. Corolla 4-cleft, sometimes of 4 petals, 

 rarely wanting. Stamens 2, alternate with the segments of the 

 corolla. Ovary free, 2- celled ; style 1 or none ; stigma entire 

 or bifid. Fruit often hy abortion 1 -seeded. Seeds with dense 

 albumen. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, some- 

 times pinnatifid. Flowers in racemes or panicles. 



1. LIGUSTRUM. Lz7m.— Privet. 



(Said to be derived from the Latin ligo, to bind; in allusion to the use made 

 of its branches.) 



Calyx minutely 4-toothed. Corolla funnel-form, the limb 

 4-cleft. Stamens 2, included. Style very short. Stigma 2- 

 cleft. Berry globose, 2-celled ; cells 2-seeded, or by abortion 

 1-seeded. 



L. vulgare Linn. : leaves elliptic-lanceolate, somewhat acute, smooth ; 

 panicles crowded. 



Woods. N. Y. to Virg. W. to Miss. May, June. \i.—Stem 4—6 feet high, 

 with numerous opposite branches. Leaves varying from elliptic to obovate, and 

 from acute to obtuse. Flowers white, in terminal thyrsoid panicles. jBerry black, 

 globose. Common Privet or Prim. 



2. CHIONANTHUS. jLwm.— Snowdrop Tree. 



(From the Greek x«w»', snow, and avQos, di flower ; in allusion to its snow-white 

 flowers.) 



Calyx 4-parted. Corolla with the tube very short, the limb 

 deeply 4-parted; the lobes long and linear. Stamens 2. An- 

 thers nearly sessile on the tube. Drupe 1-seeded. Nut striate. 



C. Virginica Linn. : panicle terminal ; peduncles 3-flowered ; leaves 

 acute. 



var. 1. montana Pwrsh: leaves oval-lanceolate, coriaceous, smooth; 

 panicles dense; drupe oval. 



