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HAB. Swamps. Can. to Car. June, July. T>. Shrub 6 8 

 feet high. Flowers small, white. Berries bright scarlet. 



Winter Berry. 



2. P. ambiguus Mich. : leaves deciduous, oval, entire, acuminate at 

 each end ; flowers 4-clefl ; sterile ones crowded on the lower branch- 

 lets ; fertile ones solitary, on long peduncles. 



HAB. Wet woods. Penn. to Geor. ? July. 1?. A small tree, 

 with whitish bark. Leaves 11-2 inch long, and 1 inch wide, 

 petiolate. 



3. P. IcEvigatus Pursh : leaves deciduous, lanceolate, with appressed 

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

 scarcely pubescent ; flowers 6-cleft ; fertile ones axillary, subsessile ; 

 sterile scattered, pedunculate^ 



HAB. In swamps. N. S. / W. to Miss. July. T>. A shrub 

 68 feet high. Leaves 2 1-2 inches long. Berries large, red. 



4. P. glaber Linn. : leaves evergreen, wedge-form, lanceolate, coria- 

 ceous, smooth and shining, somewhat toothed at the extremity ; pedi- 

 cels axillary, subsolitary, mostly 3-flowered. 



HAB. Swamps. N. Y. to Car. July. ^>. Shrub 3 4 feet high. 

 Flowers white. Berries globose, black and shining. Ink Berry. 



OHDER LXXV. OLEACEJ:. LM. 



Flowers monoclinous, sometimes dioecious. Calyx mono- 

 phyllous, divided, persistent. Carol hypogynous, monopeta- 

 lous, 4-cleft, sometimes of 4 petals, connected in pairs by the 

 intervention of the filaments, rarely wanting ; aestivation some- 

 what valvate. Stamens 2, alternate with the segments of the 

 corol ; anthers 2-celled, bursting longitudinally. Ovary free, 

 2-celled ; ovules in pairs, collateral, pendulous ; style 1, or 

 none ; stigma entire or bifid. Fruit drupaceous, baccate or 

 capsular. Seeds often by abortion solitary ; albumen dense, 

 fleshy, abundant ; embryo straight, about half the length of 

 the albumen ; radicle superior ; cotyledons foliaceous. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, sometimes pin- 

 natifid. 



1. LIGUSTRUM. Linn. 



Calyx minute, 4-toothed. Corol with the tube short ; the 

 limb 4-cleft, spreading. Stamens 2, Berry 1-celled, 2 4- 

 seeded. Diandria. Monogynia. 



L. vulgare Linn. : leaves elliptical-lanceolate, somewhat acute, 

 smooth ; panicle terminal, compact. 



