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49. OLEACE^. 50. APOCrffACILE. 
2. Fhaxinl's. Fr. dry, of 1 or 2 sinprle-seeded cells, com- 
pressed and leaflike at the end, pendiilous. Cal. 0 or 4-cleft. 
Cor. 0, or of 4 petals. — Fl. sometimes without stamens. 
1. Ligus'truji Linn. Privet. 
1. L. vulf/dre (L.) ; 1. elliptic-lanceolate entire glabrous, pa- 
nicles terminal compound dense. — E. B. 704. St. 14. 1. — A 
bushy shrub, 6 — 8 feet high, with straight smooth branches and 
opposite leaves. Fl. white. Berries globose, black, rarely yellow. 
—Thickets in the South of England. Sh. VI. VII. E. I. 
2. Peax'intis lAnn. Ash. 
1. F. excd'sior (L.) ; 1. pinnate with 4 — 8 pairs of nearly 
sessile ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrate leaflets, cal. wanting. 
— E. B. 1692. St. 44. 7. — A handsome tree. Usually dioecious. 
Fl. appearing before the 1., in axillary clusters. — (9. F. hetero- 
fihyllm (Vahl) ; 1. simple and pinnate. — E.B. 2476.— Woods and 
hedges. T. IV. V. E. S. I. 
Order L. APOCYNACE^. 
Cal. in 4 or 5 persistent divisions. Cor. regular, 4 — 5-lobed, 
deciduous, t%visted in the bud. Stam. 5, filaments distinct. 
Anth. 2-celled, pollen granular. Ovaries 2, 1-ceUed ; or 1 of 2 
cells. Stigma 1. Seed with fleshy albumen. 
1. Vinca. Cor. salvershaped ; tute lorig, with 5 angles at 
the mouth, closed by spreading hairs and the connivent 
stamens ; limb flat, 5-lobed. Stigma capitate with a ring at 
its base. Fr. of 2 erect long follicles. 
1. Vin'cA Linn. Periwinkle. 
fl. V. minor (L.) ; st. procumbent, 1. lanceolate-elliptic their 
margins as well as tbose of the small lanceolate calyx-segments 
glabrous. — E.B. 917. — St. prostrate, rooting. Flowering branches 
erect. PI. smaller than those of the next, blue, rarely white. — 
Woods and thickets. P. V. VL Lesser Periioinkle. E. I. 
*2. V. m(ijor (L.) ; st. somewhat ascending, L ovate acute or 
subcordate their margins as well as those of the long subulate 
calyx-segments ciliate. — E.B. .514. — St. at first ascending, after- 
wards prostrate and rooting. Flowering shoots erect. Fl. lai'ge, 
purplisn blue. — Hedges and thickets, naturalized. P. IV. \. 
Greater reri%oinlde. . ij .• . "E.l. 
