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calyx. Stamens enclosed. Style very short. Stigma bifid. Berry globose, 
containing two chartaceous nuts. 
Puuty’REA Diose. Corolla short, campanulate. Stamens a little exserted. 
Stigma thickish. Berry globose, having one of the cells usually abortive. 
Curtona’Nruus Lin. Calyx 4-parted. Segments of corolla linear, and long. 
Stamens enclosed. Style short. Stigma trifid. Drupe containing a stri- 
ated 1-seeded nut. 
Sect. I]. Syri'nGez. 
Sect. Char. Corolla funnel-shaped or campanulate, 4—5-parted. Stamens 
2, short. Fruit capsular, 2-celled. 
Syri’nad Lin. Calyx tubular, short, 4-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, with 
an elongated tube, and a 4-parted limb. Stamens enclosed, style filiform. 
Stigma thickish, bifid. Capsule oblong, 2-celled, 2-valved; dehiscence 
loculicidal. Seeds solitary, compressed, with membranous margins. 
FonTane's/4 Labill. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla of 2 petals. Stamens elon- 
gated, and stigma bifid. Capsule papery, indehiscent. Cells 1-seeded 
Sect. III. FRAXINIE‘z. 
Sect. Char. Flowers polygamous. Calyx 4-parted or wanting. Stamens 
2, short. Anthers dehiscing externally. Stigma nearly sessile, bifid. 
Fruit 2-celled, compressed, winged at the top, usually 1-seeded. 
Fra’xinus Tourn. Flowers polygamous. Petals wanting. Samara 1-celled. 
O’rnus Pers. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx 4-parted. 
Petals 4. Samara 2-celled. 
Sect. I. OLE‘IN&. 
Genus I. 
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LIGU'STRUM Tourn. Tue Priver. Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Tourn, Inst., t. 367.; Lin. Gen., No. 9.; Schreb. Gen., No. 23.; Geertn, Fruct., 2. p. 72. 
t.92.; Juss, Gen., p. 106.; Lam. IL, 1. t.7.; Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot., 2d edit., p. 308. ; Don’s Mill., 
4. p. 44. 
Synonymes. Troéne, Fr.; Rainweide, Ger. , 
Derivation. Said to be from digo, to tie; in reference to its flexible branches. 
Gen. Char. Calyx short, tubular, 4-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, with 
the tube exceeding the calyx, and the limb 4-parted. Stamens 2, with short 
filaments, inserted into the tube of the corolla. Style very short. Stigma 
obtuse, bifid. Berry globose, containing 2 chartaceous, 1-seeded nuts. 
Albumen hardish. Embryo inverted. (Don’s Mill., iv. p. 44.)—Shrubs, with 
opposite leaves, and terminal, compound, thyrsoid racemes of white flowers ; 
generally subevergreen. Natives of Europe, and some parts of Asia, Africa 
and North America, and readily propagated by cuttings in common soil. 

va ¥ 2 1. 0. vutea re Trag. The common Privet. 
Identification. Trag. Hist., 1005.; Lin. Sp., 1. p. 10.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 44. 
Synonymes. L. germanicum Bauh. Hist., 475.; Prim, or Prim-print; Troéne, Puine blanc, Fr. ; 
gemeine Rainweide, Ger.; Ligustro Olivella, Ital. 
Derivation. This plant was anciently called prim, or prim-print, from its being used for verdant 
sculptures, or topiary work, and for primly cut hedges, Puine blanc seems to imply a “little 
white shrub,” from the whiteness of the blossom of the privet ; which is alluded to by Virgil, and 
other poets, but which soon vanishes, and changes to brown, when exposed to the direct influence 
of the sun, The German name is combined of vain, green, and we7de, a willow; alluding to its 
being supple like the willow, and nearly evergreen. Olivella seems to signify the little olive. The 
