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2. FRAXINUS. Fr. dry, a pendulous samara of 1 or 2 single- 

 seeded cells. Cal. or 4-cleft. Cor. 0. Fl. sometimes 

 without stamens. 



1. LIGUSTRUM Linn. Privet. 



1. L. vulgare (L.) ; 1. elliptic-lanceolate entire glabrous, pa- 

 nicles terminal compound dense. E. B. 764. St. 14. 1. A 

 bushy shrub, 6 8 feet high, with straight smooth branches and 

 opposite leaves. Fl. white. Berries globose, black, rarely yellow. 

 Thickets in the south of England. Sh. VI. VII. E. 



2. FRAXINUS Linn. Ash. 



1. F. excelsior (L.) ; 1. pinnate with 4 8 pairs of nearly 

 sessile ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrate leaflets, cal. wanting. 

 E. B. 1692. St. 44. 7- A handsome tree. Fl. appearing be- 

 fore the 1., in axillary clusters. /3. F. heterophyllus (Vahl), 1. 

 simple and pinnate. E. B. 2476. Woods and hedges. T. IV. V. 



Order L. APOCYNACE^E. 



Cal. in 4 or 5 persistent divisions. Cor. regular, 4 5-lobed, 

 deciduous, contorted. Stam. 5, filaments distinct. Anth. 2- 

 celled, pollen granular. Ovaries 2, 1 -celled; or 1 of 2 cells. 

 Stigma 1. Seed with fleshy albumen. 



1. VINCA. Cor. salvershaped ; tube long with 5 angles at 

 the mouth, closed with spreading hairs and the connivent 

 stamens ; limb flat, 5-lobed. Stigma capitate with a ring at 

 its base. Fr. of 2 erect elongated follicles. 



1 . VINCA Linn. Periwinkle. 



1. V. minor (L.) ; st. procumbent, 1. lanceolate-elliptical, their 

 margins as well as those of the small lanceolate calyx-segments 

 glabrous. E. B. 917- St. prostrate, rooting, flowering branches 

 erect. Fl. smaller than those of the next, blue, rarely white. 

 Woods and thickets. P. V. VI. Lesser Periwinkle. E. S.? I.? 



*2. V. major (L.) ; st. somewhat ascending, 1. ovate acute or 

 subcordate, their margins as well as those of the elongate-subu- 

 late calyx-segments ciliate. E.B. 514. St. at first ascending, 

 afterwards prostrate and rooting, flowering shoots erect. Fl. 

 large, purplish-blue. Hedges and thickets, naturalized. P. IV. 

 V. Greater Periwinkle. E. S.? L? 



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