THE OLIVE FAMILY. 423 



AMERICAN WILD OLIVE. DEVIL-WOOD. 



Osmatithus A)nt'ricdnus. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Olive. Cream-white. Very fragrant . Florida to March, .{f-rtl. 



North Carolina. Fruit : June. 



Flowers: small; polygamous, growing sessile or on very short pedicels in axil- 

 lary racemes. Calyx : minute, bracted at the base and with four-triangular, sharp- 

 pointed lobes. Corolla : salver-form with four short, spreading and rounded 

 lobes. Stamens : two, on the corolla. Drupes: dark blue; oblong, or obovate 

 at the end of the bracted pedicels. Leaves: simple; op|)osite; narrowly oblong 

 or lanceolate, tapering at the base into margined peti(jles ; entire; bright-green 

 and glossy above, pubescent underneath when young, and dotted with i)lack; 

 evergreen. Bark: grey, tinted with red; scaly. Inner bark: cinnamon coloured. 



Besides being a tree of usually about twenty feet high, the Devil-wood 

 occurs often much smaller, and is tlien of shrubby habit. And, since it may 

 cause wonder, it may here be stated that it has brought upon itself its 

 rather forcible common name through the difficulty which is found in split- 

 ting its wood. Usually it grows in oak-woodlands or moist, rich soil but a 

 short distance from the coast. Its handsome fruit, a little larger, perhaps, 

 than buckshot, is bitter, has astringent properties, and is not edible. Dur- 

 ing the autumn the flower-buds are formed in the leaf axils of the year, and 

 here they remain snugly warm with their woolly covering until the early 

 spring. It was by Mark Catesby in the Natural History of North Carolina 

 that the tree was first described. 



Our common lilac bushes, Syringas, we must remember, and also the 

 privots, Ligustrum species familiarly known in cultivation, are other examples 

 of the Olive family. 



THE LOQANIA FAHILY. 



Loganiacccc. 

 Including in our species vines and herbs with opposite, simple, entire 

 leaves and ichich bear regular.^ perfect flowers 7vith gaviopetalous 

 corollas. 



YELLOW JESSAMINE. CAROLINA JASMINE. {Plate CXI.) 

 GelshniiDU sc))ipi'rvirc}is. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Logajiia. Vivid yellow. Very fragrant . Texas and Florida February- 



to Virginia. November. 



Flo7uers : growing in axillary cymes of from one to six flowers. Pedicels : short; 

 with scale-like bracts. Calyx: with five oblong, pointed segments. Corolla: 



