400 OLEACE2E. (OLIVE FAMILY.) 



6. PERIPLOCA, L. PERIPLOCA. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-parted, wheel-shaped, with 5 awned scales in the 

 throat. Filaments distinct : anthers coherent with the apex of the stigma, 

 bearded on the back : pollen-masses 5, each of 4 united, singly affixed directly 

 to the glands of the stigma. Stigma hemispherical. Pods smooth, widely 

 divergent. Seeds with a silky tuft. Twining shrubby plants, with smooth 

 opposite leaves, and panicled-cymose flowers. (Name from nepinXoKr), a coiling 

 round, in allusion to the twining stems.) 



1 . P. GR^CA, L. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the loosely- 

 flowered cymes; divisions of the brownish-purple corolla linear-oblong, very 

 hairy above. Near Rochester, &c., New York. Probably hardly established. 

 Aug. (Adv. from Eu.) 



ORDER 81. OLJEACE^E. (OLIVE FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite and pinnate or simple leaves, a k-cleft (or 

 sometimes obsolete) calyx, a regular ^-cleft or nearly or quite 4-petalous 

 corolla, sometimes apetalous; the stamens only 2 (rarely or accidentally 3 

 or 4) ; the ovary 2-celled, with 2 (rarely more) ovules in each cell. Seeds 

 anatropous, with a large straight embryo in hard fleshy albumen, or with- 

 out albumen. The Olive is the type of the true Oleaceas, to which be- 

 longs the LILAC (STRING A), &c. ; while the JESSAMINE (JASMINUM) 

 represents another division of the order. 



Tribe I. OLEINE^E. Fruit a drupe or berry. Flowers perfect or polygamous, with 

 both calyx and corolla ; the latter valvate in the bud. Ovules suspended. Leaves simple, 

 mostly entire. 



1. Ligustrum. Corolla funnel-form, its tube longer than the calyx, 4-cleft 



2. Olea. Corolla short, bell-shaped or salver-shaped ; the limb 4-parted. 



3. Chionanthus. Corolla 4-parted or 4-petalous, the divisions or petals long and linear. 

 Tribe II. FRAXINE.33. Fruit dry and winged (a samara). Flowers dioecious or 



polygamous, mostly apetalous, and sometimes also without a calyx. Ovules suspended. 

 Leaves odd-pinnate. 



4. Fraxinus. The only genus of the Tribe. 



Tribe III. FORESTIEREjE. Fruit a.drupe or berry. Flowers dioecious or perfect, 

 apetalous. Ovules suspended. Leaves simple. 



5. Forestiera. Flowers dioecious, from a scaly catkia-like bud. Stamens 2-4. 



1. LIGTJSTBUM, Tourn. PRIVET. 



Calyx short-tubular, 4-toothed, deciduous. Corolla funnel-form, 4-lobed ; the 

 lobes ovate, obtuse. Stamens 2, on the tube of the corolla, included. Stigma 

 2-cleft. Berry spherical, 2-celled, 2-1-seeded. Shrubs, with entire leaves on 

 short petioles, and small white flowers in terminal thyrsoid panicles. (The clas- 

 sical name.) 



1. L. VULG\RE, L. (COMMON PRIVET or PRIM.) Leaves elliptical- 

 lanceolate, very smooth, thickish, deciduous ; berries black. Used for low 

 hedges : naturalized in copses by the agency of birds in E. New England and 

 Pennsylvania. June. (Nat. from Eu.) 



