HYDRANGEA FAMILY. Hydrangeaceae. 



white or cream-colored flowers; the calyx top-shaped, with 

 four or five lobes; the petals four or five; the stamens 

 twenty to forty, inserted on a disk; the ovary inferior, with 

 three to five styles; the capsule top-shaped, containing 

 many oblong seeds. These plants were named in honor 

 of King Ptolemy Philadelphus. They are often called 

 Mock- Orange, because the flowers often resemble orange- 

 blossoms. The commonest name, Syringa, is confusing, 

 because that is the generic name of the Lilac. 



In June and July, in the high Sierras, 

 Philadelphus U P ^ an a ltitude of four thousand feet, 

 CaUjornicus this lovely shrub forms fragrant thickets 



White O f bloom. It looks very much like the 



. familiar garden Syringa and the smell is 

 Cal., Oreg., Wash. . * . y 5 . 



just as delicious. The bush is from four 



to twelve feet high, with smooth, pale, woody stems, dark- 

 green leaves, sometimes slightly toothed, very smooth and 

 shiny, and pretty flowers, in clusters at the ends of the 

 branches. They are each about an inch across, with four 

 or five, cream-white petals, rolled in the bud, and a golden 

 center, composed of numerous, bright-yellow stamens. 



A small shrub, not nearly so handsome 



Small Syringa ag th j t ffom t t three f fc hi h 

 Philadelphus ' 



microphyllus Wlth slender, pale-gray, woody stems, 

 White branching very abruptly. The small 



Summer leaves are smooth and very bright green 



Ariz., Cal., Qn th gid but the under gide ^ 



New Mex. 



very pale and covered with close white 



down. The flowers are much smaller than the garden 

 Syringa, with white petals and numerous yellow stamens, 

 the calyx reddish outside and downy within, and have a 

 delicious smell, like lemon-blossoms. This pretty little 

 shrub may be found growing in small shady canyons, in 

 northern Arizona and elsewhere in the Southwest. 



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