132 Beautiful Plants growing wild 



Liig^strum. 



Ivigustrum vulgare L. Privet, Prim. A well known orna- 

 mental shrub, six feet or more in height, with smooth, oval, spear- 

 shaped leaves. Remarkable, in summer, for its conical bunches of 

 small white flowers, and in autumn, for its black, shining berries, 

 looking like miniature bunches of grapes. — Frequent in woods and 

 hedges. — May, June. 



Lonicera.. 



The JLonicera has a calyx five-toothed ; a corolla long, tubular, 

 with a border in five parts, generally unequal ; and a three-celled 

 many-seeded, distinct berry. 



Lonicera hirsuta Caprifolium pubescens Hook. Hairy Honey- 

 suckle. A woody vine, said to twine upon trees to the height of 

 twenty or thirty feet. Leaves hairy, nearly stemless, broad egg- 

 shaped, or inverted egg-shaped, pale bluish green beneath, ciliate 

 or eyelashed on the margin ; the upper ones nearly smooth, perfo- 

 rated by the branches. Flowers yellow, hairy, in terminal spikes, 

 forming a sort of head. Berries orange, glandular-pubescent. — 

 Rocky woods. — Grows near Williams College ; likewise, it is said, 

 in Worcester. — June. 



Lonicera parviflora. Small yellow Honeysuckle. A climbing 

 shrub, with pale, rough bark. Leaves white, glaucous beneath, 

 wavy, and rolled outward at the edge, mostly without stems, the 

 upper leaves being perfoliate or perforated. Corolla yellow, swell- 

 ed out at the base, the divisions of its border commonly curled. 

 Stamens bearded. The flowers are smaller than those of the spe- 

 cies preceding, and form terminal heads of spikes in circles around 

 the stems. Berries red. — Rocky places ; woods in the western 

 parts of Massachusetts. — Flowers in June. 



Magnolia.. 



Magnolia glauca L. Small Magnolia, Beaver Tree, Swamp 

 Laurel. This is beHeved to be " the only species of its superb ge- 

 nus, that has been found native in New England." In favorable 

 situations, it forms a small tree. The leaves are perennial, smooth, 

 standing out of order, regular-oval, with stems, but no indentures 

 on the margin. Their under side, except the midrib, is extremely 

 glaucous, being nearly of a light soap-stone color, by which the 

 shrub may be distinguished at a distance. The flowers are solita- 

 ry, terminal, white, or cream-colored. Calyx in three divisions, 

 obtuse, concave, spathulate, or paddle-shaped. The corolla has 

 from eight to fourteen obtuse, concave petals, contracted at base, 

 and forming a cup-sha})ed flower. The fruit is a cone, opening 

 lono-itudinally for the escape of the seeds, which are scarlet, and 

 hang by threads, after falling out. The bark is aromatic. The 

 flowers have something of the odor of the pine-apple. Often cul- 

 tivated. — " It grows plentifully in a sheltered swamp at Gloucester, 



