JASMINACEJi. 



555 



In woods, throughout temperate 

 Europe and western Asia, extending 

 northwards into Scandinavia, but ge- 

 nerally replaced in southern Europe 

 by a closely allied but perhaps distinct 

 species. 



Common in Britain, and truly wild 

 excepting in the northern parts of 

 Scotland, where, however, it bears the 

 climate in plantations. Fl. summer. A 

 garden variety has been described as 

 a distinct British species, under the 

 name of F. heteropliylla (Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2476), and several American species 

 are occasionally to be met with in our 

 plantations. 



Fig. 663. 



II. PRIVET. LIGUSTRUM. 



Shrubs, with opposite, simple leaves, and small white flowers. Calyx 

 slightly 4-toothed. Corolla 4-lobed, with a short tube. Stamens 

 short. Fruit a berry, with 2 cells and 1 or 2 seeds in each. 



Besides our own, the genus contains but a small number of species, 

 chiefly from eastern Asia, some of which are in cultivation in our 

 gardens. 



1. Common Privet. Ligustrum vulgare, Linn. (Fig. 664<.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 764.) 



A shrub, attaining 6 to 8 feet in height, with long, slender branches. 

 Leaves nearly evergreen, lanceolate or oblong, quite entire, and shortly 

 stalked. Flowers in short, compact panicles at the ends of the branches. 

 Berries black, globular or somewhat ovoid. 



In hedges and thickets, over the greater part of Europe and western 

 Asia, penetrating far into Scandinavia, but so much planted in hedges 



