192 Olive (Oleacece) 



Genus LIGUSTRUM, Tourn. 



Privet. [Z. vulgare, Z.] 



Flowers, small, white, close, in upright pyramid-shaped 

 spikes at the ends of the branches. Corolla, four- 

 lobed. Calyx, small, minutely four-toothed. Sta- 

 mens, two. Seed-case, not adherent to the calyx. 

 May, June. 



Leaves, simple, three quarters to two inches long, oppo- 

 site, edge entire, lance-shape and oval to reverse 

 egg-shape, acute or blunt, very smooth, dark green. 



Fruit, rounded, in cone-shaped bunches, two-celled, two- 

 to four-seeded, black, bitter, ripe in July ; a berry. 



Found, in woods and thicket^ from New Jersey and New 

 York to Virginia and westward. 



A shrub four to eight feet high, naturalized from 

 Europe. It is cultivated for ornament, and in the form 

 of low hedges. 



