420 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



N. Oleander, Linn. Common oleander. Leaves lanceolate: flowers large, 

 rose-color or white, not fragrant, with crown segments not fringed. 



N. oddrum, Soland. Sweet oleander. Flower fragrant, and bearing 

 crown segments which are more fringed, and long anther appendages. 



XLIV. OLEACE^E. OLIVE FAMILY. 



Trees or shrubs: leaves simple or pinnately compound, opposite: 

 flowers various, but regular; calyx free from ovary, usually small and 

 4-lobed, or none; corolla regular, 4-parted, or of 4 distinct petals, or 

 none; stamens 2, with separate filaments inserted on petals, or hypogy- 

 nous: ovary 2-celled; style 1, if any. 



A. Shrubs or very small trees: leaves simple: flowers perfect. 



B. Flowers yellow . . 1. Forsythia 



BB. Flowers white or lilac. 



c. Fruit a dry pod, loculicidal 2. Syringa 



cc. Fruit berry-like. 



D. Flowers practically polypetalous; petals long, 



narrow; flowers drooping 3. Chionanthus 



DD. Flowers gamopetalous; corolla-tube funnel- 

 form, 4-lobed; flowers erect 4. Ligustrum 



AA. Large forest trees: leaves pinnately compound: flowers 



imperfect, mostly dioecious: fruit a samara 5. Fraxinus 



1. FORSYTHIA. 



Ornamental shrubs from the Orient, with opposite simple or trifoliolate 

 leaves: flowers perfect, the deciduous calyx and the bell-shaped corolla in 4 

 parts; stamens 2 on base of corolla; style short: pod 2-celled, many-seeded. 



F. viridissima, Lindl. Strong hardy shrub, with green branches covered 

 with showy yellow flowers, separate on pedicels in early spring before 

 leaves appear: leaves simple, lance-oblong: corolla-lobes narrow -oblong and 

 spreading; style twice as long as stamens. 



F. suspensa, Vahl. Branches slender and drooping: corolla-lobes larger 

 and more spreading and style shorter than in preceding: leaves simple, 

 broadly-ovate, also frequently trifoliolate on same bush. 



2. SYRfNGA. LILAC. 



Common ornamental shrubs, usually tall, with leaves simple, entire, 

 opposite: many small fragrant flowers in close terminal panicles or thyrses; 

 calyx 4-toothed; corolla salver-form, tube long; limb 4-lobed; stamens 2, on 

 summit of corolla-tube: fruit a 4-seeded flattened pod, 2-valved; seeds flat- 

 tened, somewhat winged or margined. No native species. The name Syringa 

 is sometimes popularly applied to Philadelphus. 



S. vulgaris, Linn. Common lilac. Fig. 72. Well-known bushy shrub from 



