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CLASS II. DIANDEIA. 



ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 



2. Licustrum. Gen.pl. 23. (Jasmine*.) 



Cor. 4-cleft ; berry with 2-cells, 2-seeds in 

 each cell. 



vuigare. 1. L. leaves ovate-lanceolate, very entire sometimes 

 blunt, sometimes a little pointed $ pannicle with 

 3-divisions. 

 Icon. Eng. Bot. 764. 



Privet. Prim. Print. 



A shrub growing 1 to the height of four or five feet. Leaves 

 sometimes growing by threes. Berries black, persistent. 

 Flowers in pannicles, white. Often met with in our neigh- 

 bourhood ; and sometimes in situations where it has every ap- 

 pearance of growing wild. It is, however, supposed to be 

 introduced, though Dr. Muhlenburg has it in his catalogue as 

 a native plant. In hedges, on the margins of fields and woods. 

 On the high hills of the Wissahickon, near the mill on the 

 Ridge road. July. 



3. Veronica, L. Gen. PI. 32. ( Pedicular es. ) 



Cal. 4~parted. Cor. rotate, 4-lobed, unequal, 

 the lower segment narrower. Caps. 2-cel- 

 lcd, obcordate. Seeds few. Nutt. 



•fficinaiis. 1. V. lateral spikes pedunculated, leaves opposite, 

 obovate,or roundish, hairy ; stem hairy and pro- 

 cumbent. Willd. 



Icon. Engl. Bot. 765. EL Dan. 248. Wood- 

 ville's Med. Bot. 



