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JASMINES. [Fraxinus. 



Hab. N.W. Coast. Mr. Menzies, On high woody grounds at the base of Mount Hood, near the great 

 Falls of the Columbia ; not common, — Nearly allied to the preceding, but the leaves are much shorter. 

 The peduncle has large concave bracteas, and I have never seen more than two flowers on any specimen. 



Tab. CXXXVIII. — Fig. 1, Flower; Jig. 2, Flower with the petals spread open; ^g. 3» Stamens ; Jig, 

 4, Pistil: — magnijied, 



[Obs. When I published my Tolmiea, in the preceding part of this work, I was not aware that it was 

 already described and figured by M. Bongard, in his Vegetation de Sitcka, under the name of Cladotham' 

 nus pyroUJolius, p. 37. t. 1, — a name which, of course, must be preferred to mine.] 



Ord. LVL jasmines. Juss. 



l.LIGUSTRUM. L. 



Cat. minutus, 4-dentatus. Cor. tubo brevi limbo 4-fido. Stam, 2. Filamenta brevia. 

 Stylus brevissimus. Stigma hi^dum. B ace a glohosa^ uniloculuris, 2-4-spernia. — Frutices, 

 Folia interdum perennia. 



I. L. vulgare; foliis elliptico-Ianceolatis glabris, panicula coarctata. — L, — EngL Bot. t. 

 764. Mich. Am, v. \. p. 3. Pursh^ FL Am. v. \, p. 7. Torre?/, FL v. I. p. 7. 



Hab. Canada, (not indigenous.) 



2. FRAXINUS. Z. 



Fiores ssepe polygami. Cai. 4-partitus v. nullus. Cor. 4-partita v. tetrapetalu v, nulla. 

 Stam. 2. Fructus: Samara pendula basi monosperma. — Ai'bores regiones temperatas habi- 

 tarites. Folia opposita pinnata. Fiores apetali et polygami {¥ra.%mus)y vel hermapJiroditi 

 suhtetfapetali (Ornus, Scop.) 



1. F. samhucifolia ; foliolis sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis serratis rugoso-nitidis basi rotundatis 

 in^qualibus axillis venarum subtus villosis, floribus nudis {PL), samaris ellipticis basi 

 obtusis apice emarginatis (Mx.) — Willd. — Mich. N. Am. Sylv. {ed. Philnd. 1819) v. 3. 

 p. 122. Pursh, FL Am. v. I. p. 8. 



Hab. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Michaux. Canada. Willd. 



2. F.epiptera; foliolis ad summum 4-jugis oblongo-ovalibusacuminatis subintegris, cap- 

 sulis obverse lanceolatis apice obtuse emarginatis ima parte teretibus apteris. Mich. Am. 

 V. 2. p. 56. Purshy FL Am. v. 1. p. 8. 



Hab. Canada. Pursh. — I give this as a native of the British possessions on the authority of Pursh, 

 who, however, makes no reference io Michaux, Flora Bar. Am., where the species first appears, and where 

 it is said to be a native of Virginia and Carolina. What 1 hdLve cAled F. epiptera, in the Companion to the 

 Bot. Mag., from Drummond's N. Orl. Coll., (n. 210,} has the leaves quite entire; the ripe saraarae are ^ 

 inches long, terete at the base ; wing very long, (as described by Elliott, and figured by Gaertner.) and of 

 nearly the same width to the very apex. Pursh quotes •' F. discolor, Mich. Arb. Forest.;" but in my 

 ed, of the Sglva there is no such plant, either under that name, or under F. epiptera; there, however, is an 

 F. discolor of Muhl. referred to F. Americana, L. (F. acuminata^ Lam.) 



