. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genus 5. OLIVE FAMILY. 729 5. LIGUSTRUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 7. 1753. Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire simple leaves, and small white complete flowers in terminal thyrses or panicles. small, truncate or 4-toothed, inferior. Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform, its tube mostly short, the limb 4-lobed, the lobes induplicate- valvate in the bud. Stamens 2,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genus 5. OLIVE FAMILY. 729 5. LIGUSTRUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 7. 1753. Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire simple leaves, and small white complete flowers in terminal thyrses or panicles. small, truncate or 4-toothed, inferior. Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform, its tube mostly short, the limb 4-lobed, the lobes induplicate- valvate in the bud. Stamens 2, inserted on the tube of the corolla; filaments short. Ovary -celled; ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous; style short or slender; stigma thickened. Fruit 1-3-seeded mostly globose berry. [The c cal Latin name.] 3f the Old World, About 35 species, following typical. â '^^^^^. I. Ligustrum vulgare L. Privet. Prim. Fig- 3325- Ligustrum vulgare L. Sp. PI. 7. 1753- A shrub, 6°-io° high, the branches long and slender. Leaves firm, tardily deciduous, glabrous, lanceolate or oblong, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, short-petioled, 9"-2' long, 3"-/" wide, obscurely veined; panicles dense, short, minutely pubescent; flowers white, about 3" broad; pedicels very short; stamens included; berries globose, black, 2"-3" in diameter. In thickets and along roadsides, escaped f cultivation. Maine and Massachusetts to Ontario, western New York, Pennsylvariia and North Caro- lina. Native of Europe and Asia. Used'for hedges. June-July. Old English names, primwort, print, skedge, skedgwith. Family 14. LOGANIACEAE Duniort. Anal. Fam. 21. 1829. L0G.^NI.\ F.^MILY. PTerbs, shrubs, vines or some tropical genera trees, with opposite or verticillate simple stipulate leaves, or the leaf-bases connected by a stipular line or membrane, and regular perfect 4-5-parted mostly cymose or spicate flowers. inferior, the tube campanulate, sometimes short or
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