. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 5. OLIVE FAMILY. 729. 5. LIGUSTRUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 7. 1753. Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire simple leaves, and small white complete flowers in terminal thyrses or panicles. Calyx small, truncate or 4-toothcd, inferior. Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform, its tube mostly short, the limb 4-lobed, the lobes induplicate- valvate in the bud. Stame
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 5. OLIVE FAMILY. 729. 5. LIGUSTRUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 7. 1753. Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire simple leaves, and small white complete flowers in terminal thyrses or panicles. Calyx small, truncate or 4-toothcd, 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 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous; style short or slender; stigma thickened. Fruit a 1-3-seeded mostly globose berry. [The clas- sical Latin name.] About 35 species, natives of the Old World, the following typical. 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, g"-2' long, 3"-7" 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 from cultivation, Maine and Massachusetts to Ontario, western New York, Pennsylvania and North Caro- lina. Native of Europe and Asia. Used for hedges. June-July. Old English names, primwort, print, skedge, skedgwith. Family 14. LOGANIACEAE Dumort. Anal Fam. 21. LoGANiA Family. Flerbs, 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-S-parted mostly cymose or spicate flowers. Calyx inferior, the tube campanulate, sometimes short
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