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Ark. Small or middle-sized tree, with very tough and fissile wood. Bruised 

 foliage exhales the odor of Elder. 



2. SYRfNGA L. LILAC 



Corolla salver-formed, much exceeding the 4-toothed calyx, pale violet to 

 roseate or white. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous. Upright 

 shrubs with simple opposite ovate or lanceolate leaves and numerous flowers 

 in thyrsoid or pyramidal panicles. (Name from ffvpiyg, a pipe or tube, perhaps 

 in reference to the tubular corolla, perhaps to the use of the wood for pipe-stems 

 or whistles. ) 



1. S. VULGARIS L. (COMMON L.) Leaves ovate, acuminate, entire, truncate 

 or subcordate at base, slender-petioled ; corolla lilac-purple, rarely white. 

 Long popular in cultivation and not rarely found in a wild state. (Introd. 

 from Eu.) 



3. ADELIA P. Br. 



Calyx of 4 minute sepals. Anthers oblong. Ovary ovoid, 2-celled, with 2 

 pendulous ovules in each cell ; style slender ; stigma somewhat 2-lobed. Drupe 

 small, ovoid, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Shrubs, with opposite and often fascicled 

 deciduous leaves, and small flowers from the axils of the preceding year. Fertile 

 peduncles short, 1-3-flowered. (Name from fiSijXos, obscure, from the minute 

 flowers.) FORESTIERA Poir. 



1. A. acuminata Michx. (SWAMP PRIVET.) -Glabrous, somewhat spines- 

 cent, 1.5-3 m. high ; leaves thin, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate 

 at both ends, often serrulate ; drupe elongated-ellipsoid, usually pointed. 

 (Forestiera Poir.) Wet river-banks and swamps, s. w. Ind. to Mo., s. to 

 Tex. 



4. CHIONANTHUS L. FRINGE-TREE 



Calyx 4-parted, very small, persistent. Petals barely united at base. Stamens 

 2 (rarely 3 or 4) , on the very base of the corolla, very short. Stigma notched. 

 Drupe fleshy, globular, becoming 1-celled, 1-3-seeded. Low trees or shrubs, 

 with deciduous and entire petioled leaves, and delicate flowers in loose and 

 drooping graceful panicles, from lateral buds. (Name from xi&v, SHOW, and 

 S.v6os, blossom, alluding to the light and snow-white clusters of flowers.) 



1. C. virginica L. (OLD MAN'S BEARD.) Leaves oval, oblong, or obovate- 

 lanceolate ; flowers on slender pedicels ; petals 2-2.5 cm. long, narrowly linear, 

 acute, varying to 5 or 6 in number ; drupe purple, with a bloom, ovoid, 1-1.8 cm. 

 long. River-banks, N. J. and Pa. to Fla., Tex., and Mo. Very ornamental 

 in cultivation. May, June. 



5. LIGUSTRUM [Tourn.] L. PRIVET 



Calyx short-tubular, 4-toothed, deciduous. Stamens 2, on the tube of the 

 corolla, included. Berry 2-celled, 1-2-seeded. Shrubs with entire leaves and 

 small white flowers in terminal panicles. (The classical name.) 



1. L. VDLGXRE L. (PRIVET or PRIM.) Leaves very smooth ; berries black. 

 Used for low hedges, and naturalized from Me. to Ont. and N. C. June, 

 July. (Introd. from Eu.) 



LOGANIACEAE (LOGANIA FAMILY) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with opposite and entire leaves, and stipules or a 

 stipular membrane or line between them, and with regular i-5-merous 4-5- 

 androus perfect flowers, the ovary free from the calyx; a connecting group 

 between Gentianaceae. Apocynaceae, Scrophulariaceav (from all which they 

 are known by their stipules) and Bubiaceae, from which they differ in their 



