DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 5 



* * * Flowers inferior, monopetalous, irregular, with naked seeds. 



12. SAL VIA. Corolla ringent ; stamens with a lateral stalk. (Stem 



square ; flowers in whorled spikes.) 



* * * * Flowers superior (racemose.) 



7- CIRC^EA. Corolla of 2 petals ; calyx in 2 segments ; capsule 

 of 2 cells ; seeds solitary. 



***** Flowers apetalous. 



11. LEMNA. Corolla none ; calyx of 1 leaf; capsule with 1 seed. 

 (A simple frond floating on water, with a central root of 

 one or more fibres, each tipped with a cylindrical cap.) 



II. DIGYNIA. 



13. ANTHOXANTHUM. Calyx glume of 2 valves, one-flowered; 



corolla glume of 2 valves, awned; seed 1. (A grass.) 



I. MONOGYNIA. 

 5. LTGUSTRUM. 



1. L. vulgare, leaves elliptic -lanceolate, obtuse, with a small 

 point ; flowers in dense panicles, white ; berries black. Privet. 



Hab. Hedges occasionally, and, according to Mr WINCH, 

 indigenous on the magnesian limestone in the county of 

 Durham. July. 



Makes a neat hedge in gardens, for which this shrub is peculiar- 

 ly well fitted ; since, as HAY observes, " inter omnes frutice?, 

 arbores et herbas nihil est quod in tot iiguras et elegantias, 

 effingi, flecti, aut formari tondendo queat ac Ligustrum." 



6. FRAXINUS. 



1. F. excelsior, leaves pinnate, leaflets serrated; flowers with- 

 out calyx or corolla. Common Ash. 

 Hab. Woods and hedges. May. 



A fine tree " far stretching his umbrageous arm," and re- 

 markable for the manner in which the lower branches curve 

 up at their extremities. When growing near water, it 

 sometimes hangs down its boughs like the weeping-willow, 

 No tree is so often met with in ruins and upon ancient 



