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Oleaceae. 



Foresttera. Swamp Privet. 

 (Family Oleaceae). 



Shrubs or small trees with 

 many short divergent almost 

 spiny twigs: deciduous. Twigs 

 slender, round: pith small, con- 

 tinuous, white, rounded. Buds 

 superposed, sessile, globose, small, 

 with 2-4 pairs of exposed scales. 

 Leaf-scars opposite, shield-shaped, 

 low and small: bundle-trace 1, 

 crescent - shaped : stipule-s cars 

 lacking. (Adelia). 



Winter-character references to 

 Forestiera acuminata: Hitchcock 

 (1), 3; Schneider, f. 205. 



In the rich bottom lands of the 

 Mississippi river the swamp privet 

 makes thickets that are very 

 dense at top but open near the 

 ground. Such a thicket is pictured 

 (pi. 10) by S. M. Coulter in a 

 discussion of various types of 



swamps in volume 15 of the Report of the Missouri Botanical 



Garden. 



Twigs glabrous or puberulent, warty. F. acuminata. 



