. 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. 724 OLEACEAE. Vol. II. polygamous or dioecious, 2-4-parted flowers in terminal or axillary panicles, cymes or fascicles. Calyx inferior, free from the ovary, usually small, sometimes none. Corolla gamopetalous, polypetalous, or none. Stamens 2-4, usually 2, inserted on the corolla; filaments usually short, separate; anthers mostly large, ovate, oblong or linear
. 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. 724 OLEACEAE. Vol. II. polygamous or dioecious, 2-4-parted flowers in terminal or axillary panicles, cymes or fascicles. Calyx inferior, free from the ovary, usually small, sometimes none. Corolla gamopetalous, polypetalous, or none. Stamens 2-4, usually 2, inserted on the corolla; filaments usually short, separate; anthers mostly large, ovate, oblong or linear, 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary superior, 2-celled; ovules few in each cavity, anatropous or amphitropous; style usually short or none, rarely elongated. Fruit a capsule, samara, berry or drupe. Seeds erect or pendulous; endosperm fleshy, horny or wanting; embryo straight, rather large; cotyledons flat, or plano-convex; radicle usually short. About 21 genera and 525 species, of wide distribution in temperate and tropical regions. Fruit a loculicidal capsule; leaves simple; flowers complete. i. Syringa. Fruit a samara ; leaves pinnate ; flowers dioecious or polygamous. 2. Fraxinus. Fruit a drupe or berry ; leaves simple. Flowers dioecious, apetalous, from catkin-like scaly buds. 3, Forestiera. Flowers complete, polypetalous, paniculate ; petals linear, 4. Chionanthus, Flowers complete, gamopetalous, paniculate. 5. Ligustrum, I. SYRINGA L. Sp. PI. 9. 1753. Shrubs with opposite entire (rarely pinnatifid) leaves, and completely gamopetalous flow- ers, in dense terminal panicles or thyrses. Calyx campantilate, mostly 4-toothed, persistent. Corolla salverform, the tube cylindric, the limb 4-lobed, the lobes induplicate-valvate. Sta- mens 2, inserted near the summit of the corolla-tube; filaments short or slender; anthers ovate or oblong. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous; style elongated; stigma 2-cleft. Capsule narrowly oblong, somewhat com- pre
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