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small leaf-scars with a single crescent-shaped bundle-trace, op- 

 posite or in whorls of 3 with a narrow connecting stipular line ; 

 small often superposed buds nearly concealed in the bark, the 

 terminal wanting; simple rather large and long-stalked entire 

 leaves ; small funnel-shaped perfect gamopetalous white flowers 

 in dense long-stalked terminal and axillary heads ; and similar 

 aggregates of inversely pyramidal small hard fruits. 

 Leaves broad, elliptical-ovate. C. occidentalis. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate. C. occidentalis angustifolia. 



GARDENIA. Cape Jessamine. 



Evergreen shrubs with pale or brownish wood with minute 

 diffused ducts and very fine medullary rays ; moderate square 

 twigs ; somewhat angled continuous pith ; opposite slightly raised 

 half-round leaf-scars, connected by transverse stipule-scars ; ses- 

 sile stipule-sheathed pointed buds ; moderate cuneate-obovate en- 

 tire leaves ; and large solitary perfect funnel-shaped gamopetalous 

 fragrant white flowers, with i-celled ovary, the calyx tubular, riot 

 ribbed and with long teeth in the following. 



Flowers single. C. jasminoides. 



Flowers double. C. jasminoides plena. 



. MITCHELLA. Partridge Berry. 



Small evergreen nearly herbaceous trailing plants with small 

 opposite petioled leaves with intervening connate stipules ; tubular 

 funnel-shaped or salver-shaped rather small perfect flowers paired 

 at end of slender axillary stalk; and rather small red twinned 

 inferior berries with a few large seeds. 

 Leaves round-ovate, very obtuse, glabrous. M. repens. 



Family CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 

 A moderate sized family of no great use apart from garden- 

 ing, but containing some of the most used and most prized plant 

 materials of the landscape gardener. 



SAMBUCUS. Elder. 



Deciduous shrubs or straggling small trees with soft pale 

 wood with minute ducts, diffused or in a somewhat evident tan- 



