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Oleaceae. 



Forsythia. Golden Bell. 

 (Family Oleaceae). 



Loosely branched spreading or 

 sometimes scrambling shrubs: de- 

 ciduous. Twigs somewhat 4- 

 sided, moderate: pith moderate, 

 finally excavated between the 

 nodes but continuous or 

 chambered at them. Buds mode- 

 rate, becoming multiple, fusiform 

 though sessile, with some half- 

 dozen pairs of scales. Leaf-scars 

 opposite, shield-shaped, rather 

 small, raised: bundle-trace 1: sti- 

 pule-scars 'wanting. 



Winter-character references: 

 X Forsythia intermedia. Schnei- 

 der, f. 201. F. suspensa. Schnei- 

 der, f. 201; Shirasawa, 277, pi. 12. 

 F. viridissima. Schneider, f. 201. 

 The pith - characters of species 

 and hybrids of this genus are dis- 

 cussed by Koehne in Gartenflora 

 for 1906, p. 199, f. 21. 



1. Pith solid at the nodes. 2. 



Pith chambered or finally all excavated. ( 1 ) . F. viridissima. 



2. Pith chambered in the internodes. (2). X F. intermedia. 

 Pith excavated between the nodes. (3). F. suspensa. 



