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HYDRANGEA FAMILY. Hydrangeaceae. | 
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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, 
Syri ; 
poe up to an altitude of four thousand feet, 
Califérnicus this lovely shrub forms fragrant thickets 
White of bloom. It looks very much like the 
Summer 
familiar garden Syringa and the smell is 
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 
as the last, from two to three feet high, 
with slender, pale-gray, woody stems, 
Cal., Oreg., Wash. 
Small Syringa 
Philadélphus 
microphyllus : 
White branching very abruptly. The small 
Summer leaves are smooth and very bright green 
caked peoes on the upper side, but the under side is 
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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