SHRUBS 495 



Stems ; pedicels and fruit bristly and glandular. When bruised 

 the plant gives out a fetid smell. 



Found in cold, damp, rocky woods in all the States east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



63. Mock-orange. Syringa 



Philadelphus inodorus. — Fatnily, Saxifrage. Color, white. 

 Leaves, opposite, pointed, ovate to oblong, with scattered teeth 

 or entire. Calyx, 4 to 5-parted, Petals, 4 or 5. Stamens, nu- 

 merous. Styles, 3 to 5, more or less united. Flowers, single 

 or a few, borne on the ends of branches. 



Virginia southward, in the mountains. 



64, Large-flowered Syringa , 



P. graudiflhnis is taller, with larger flowers. The branches 

 often curve backward. 



Along streams in the South. 



The sweet syringa, or mock-orange, of our gardens, with 

 flowers in terminal spikes, is P. eoro/idrius. 



65. W^ild Hydrangea 



Hydrangea arborescens. — Family, Saxifrage. Color, whit- 

 ish. Leaves, ovate, acute, petioled, smooth, toothed. 



Flowers, like the common garden hydrangea, in compound 

 cymes, those along the margin containing showv, petal-like 

 sepals and stamens, sometimes pistils. The central flowers 

 are complete with stamens and pistils, minute calyx-lobes, 

 and small, greenish petals. Occasionally all the flowers in the 

 centre are staminate. June, July. Sometimes September. 



This showy shrub is found in rocky woods from Pennsylvania 

 to Florida. 



