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STNONTMJ, Fraxinus tenuiore &nimore folio. Bauh. HiJ, 
i. p. 177. Fraxinus humilior five altera Theophrafti, minore & 
tenuiore folio. Bauh, Pin, p, 416. 'Fraxinus Ornus, foliolis 
ferratis, floribus corollatis. Lin, Sp, Plant, Mannifera arbor. 
Succus condenfatus eft Manna. Pharm, Land, ^ Edtnb 
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Stam.2, Pift, I. Se7n, i, lanceolatum. 
Pem, Piji, I, lanceolatum. 
Sp, Ch, F. foliis ovato-oblongis ferratis petiolatis, floribus corollatis. 
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THIS tree greatly refembles our common afb: it is lofty, much 
branched, and covered with a greyifh bark. The young fhoots pro- 
duce the leaves, which are pinnated, oppofite, and confift of feveral 
pair of pinnse, or fmall leaves, terminated by an odd one, pointed, 
ferrated, veined, ftanding upon footftalks, of an oval or oblong 
fliape, and bright green colour. The flowers grow in clofe thick 
branched fpikes, and open in May and June. In the fpecimen we 
have figured, the flowers were all hermaphrodite ; the corolla divided 
into four narrow whitifh fegments, fqmewhat longer than the ftamina; 
the two filaments tapering, and crowned with large furrowed efed 
antherse ; the germen oval, and a little comprelTed ; the flyle fhort 
and cylindrical ; the capfule is long, flat, membranous, '<. 
a fmgle flat pointed feed. 
This tree is a native of the fouthern parts of Europe, particularly 
of Sicily and Calabria.' It was firft introduced into England about 
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