C 4 ] 
vulgare. 
officinalis. 
CLASS II. DIANDRIA. 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 
2. Ligustrum. Gen.pl. 23. ( yasminea . ) 
Cor. 4-cleft ; berry with 2-cells, 2-seeds in 
each cell. 
1. L. leaves ovate-lanceolate, very entire sometimes 
blunt, sometimes a little pointed j pannicle with 
3-divisions. 
Icon. Eng. Bot. 764. 
Privet. Prim. Print. 
A shrub growing- to the height of four or five feet. Leaves 
sometimes growing by threes. Berries black, persistent. 
Flowers in pannicles, white. Often met with incur 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- 
led, obcordate. Seeds few. Nutt. 
l.’V. lateral spikes pedunculated, leaves opposite, 
obovate, or roundish, hairy ; stem hairy and pro- 
cumbent. Willd. 
Icon. Engl. Bot. 765. FI. Dan. 248. Wood- 
ville’s Med. Bot. 
