beneath,
cles
Flowers complete or hermaphrodite, greenish wliite. Pedun-
is axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves. Young branches purplish
hvid, with yellow dots. Buds cinereous. {Doris Mill'.) A deciduous tree.
South of Europe. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in J730. Flowers
white; May and June. Samara brown ; ripe in October.
Pers. Ench., 2. p. 605. , ____ . .
Práxinus rotundifòlia Ait. Hort. Kc
Don’s Mil!., 4. p. 57.
3. p. 445. ; F. mannifera
12t)6. O'rnus europæ'a.
A very handsome small tree, and a free flowerer. It and also the following
species, and probably all those of both the genera Fraxinus and O'rnus, ex-
trayasate sap, which, when it becomes concrete, is mild and mucilaginous.
This sap is produced in more abundance by O'rnus europæ'a and O, rotundi-
fôlia, than by any other species ; collected from these trees, it forms an
article of commerce under the name of manna, which is chiefly obtained from
Calabria and Sicily, where the tree abounds.
¥ 2 . O. ( e . ) k o t u n d i f o ' l i a Pers. The round-leafleted Flowering,
or Manna, Ash.
Identification.
Synonymes. .
Hort. Pluk. Aim. 182. f. 4.
Engravmgs. Willd. Baum., t. 2. f. I. ; Pluk. Aim., p. 4. ; and our figs. 1267.
Spec. Char., S/c. Leaves with 3—5 pairs of roundish-ovate,
bluntly serrated, almost sessile leaflets, which are
narrow at the base, rather small, and glabrous.
Petioles channeled. Flowers with purplish pe- will
tals, polygamous. Peduncles axillary. Branches
and buds brown. The flowers come out in the
spring, before the leaves, like those of other
species of this genus, as well as of that of Frax-
inus, {Doris Mill.) A low tree. Calabria and the
Levant, &c. Height 16 ft. to 20 ft. ; in England
i'/6 7 .o .(e.> ro tu n d ifô ü a. 30 ft. to 40 ft. Introcl. 1697. Flowers white ; April.
X L V I I I . o l e a ' c e æ ; o' r n u s .
¥ 3 0. (e .) americaIna Pursh. The American Flowering Ash.
fr“**-
1269. O. (e.) americana.
Engraving. O u r /g . 1269.
Spec. Char., S/f- Leaves
with 2—5 pairs of oblong
or ovate - acuminated,
shining, serrated leaflets,
each 3 in. to 5 in. long,
and 2 in. broad, and having
the larger veins rather
villous, glaucous, and
paler beneath, the odd
one rather cordate. Flowers
with petals, disposed
in terminal panicles.
Branches brownish grey.
Buds brown. Samara
narrow, obtuse, mucronate.
{Doris Mill.) A
tree. North America.
Height 30 It. to 40 ft.
Introd. in 1820. Flowers
white; April and May.
A more robust-growing
plant than 0. europæ'a.
¥ 4. 0. f l o r i b u ' n d a G. Don. The abundant-flowered Flowering Ash.
Identification. G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit., p. 12. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 57.
Svnont/me. Fraxinus fioribunda D. Bon I rod. Fl. Nep. p. 106.
Engravings. Wall. PI. Rar. Asiat., 2. t. 277- ; and o u r /g . 1270.
Spec. Char., 4c. Leaves with 2—3 pairs of elliptic-oblong, acuminated,
serrated, glabrous, stalked leaflets, and an odd one, varying much in figure,
the terminal, or odd,
one the largest. Pa nicles
terminal, compound,
thyrsoid.
Samara linear, or
narrow - spathulate,
obtuse, and entire.
Bark ash-coloured,
dotted. Branchlets
compressed. {Doris
Mill.) A deciduous
tree. Nepal. Height
30 ft. to 40 ft. Introd.
1822. Flowers
white; April.
There was a plant
of this species in the
Horticultural Society’s
Garden, against
the conservative wall,
which died in the
spring of 1836.
1270. 0. floribúnda.
O. sfriaia Swt. ; Frâxinus striata Foà'c, Don’s Mill. 4. p. 57. ; is a native of
North America, said to have been introduced in 1818, but we have not seen
the plant nor a figure of it.