Description of Foreign Shrubs 
wheel-shaped, 5-lobed, stamens 5, 3-5 stigmas without styles) in 
compound clusters; June; fruit black. Var. aurea has yellow- 
variegated foliage. 
60. Lycium. (L. chinensis.) 
LEAF: 1%4'-2%4', simple, alternate, entire, oval, base tapering; 
branches drooping, seldom thorny, whole plant smooth. FLOWER: 
blue-violet (corolla short-funnel-shaped with 5 spreading lobes, 5 
stamens projecting from corolla-tube, bearded at base). China. 
(PL TV.) 
61. Rhododendron. (R. ponticum.) 
LeaF : 4-6’, simple, alternate, entire, obovate-lance-shaped, 
base tapering, evergreen, thick, smooth. FLOWER: m. purple, 
very open-bell-shaped (corolla 5-lobed, stamens 10, style 1), in 
terminal clusters, late spring ; low shrub. Pontus, etc. 
62. Rhododendron. (R. hybridum.) 
Leaf essentially as in last ; flower variable in color by grafting 
foreign upon native stock. 
63. Syringa. Lilac. (Syringa.) 
In all lilacs the leaf (3'-4') is simple, opposite, entire; flower is 
m. tubular, with 4-lobed and more or less spreading border, in 
large clusters ; details as follows : 
(a) S. Josikea ; leaf elliptical, base tapering, glossy, lighter 
beneath, somewhat fleshy, not hairy. Flower deep violet-blue, 
odorless, lobes not spreading; June; 8°-12°. Hungary. 
(b) S. Persica; leaf lance-ovate. Flower white, corolla-lobes 
wide-spreading or flat when fully open, rather loosely clustered ; 
2 varieties, a/ba and rubra (reddish flowers), in Park. 
(c) S. vulgaris alba: leaf ovate, base somewhat cordate. 
Flower fragrant, lobes somewhat spreading, in crowded compound 
panicles ; spring ; color white and red in varieties a/aand ruéra. 
Eastern Europe. 
(d) S. villosa: flower light purple in bud, then white; two 
weeks later than other lilacs. 
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