dao THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



V. minor, Linn. Periwinkle. Myrtle (improperly.) A familiar trailing 

 plant of the garden, lawns and cemeteries, growing in shady places, and 

 spreading by creeping sterns: leaves evergreen, oblong-ovate, shiny: flowers 

 solitary in axils, blue (rarely white), the corolla salver-form, about 1 in. 

 across. Spring and early summer. 



V. rdsea, Linn. Erect, often 20 to 30 in. high, rather woody at base: 

 leaves ovate, obtuse, on long petioles: flowers large, on slender axillary 

 pedicels, white, white with rose eye, or plain rose color: blooming all season 

 when grown in the house or conservatory, or all summer in the garden. 

 Trojdcs. 



"A. NfiKIUM. Oleander. 



Shrubs from warm climates, much cultivated in windows and green- 

 houses: leaves lanceolate, leathery and stiff: flowers in terminal cymes, 

 white or pink, single or double: corolla large, 1 to 2 in. salverform, the 

 throat bearing 5 fringed or toothed scales: ovary of 2 carpels: stamens 5, 

 the anthers tipped with awn-like bristles. 



N. Olednder, 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^. 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 

 hypogynous: ovary 2-celled: style one, 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 



CO. Fruit berry-like. 



D. Klowers practically polypetalous: petals long, 



narrow: flowers drooping 3. Chionanthns 



DD. H lowers 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. 



