278 FRANKINCENSE 



Frankincense, BosweUia-Carteri Birdw. ; -pine, Finns Taeda L. 



Franklandia R. Br. Proteaceae (i). 2 W. Austr.' 



Franseria Cav. Compositae (5). 16 Am. 



Frantzia Pittier. Cucurhitaceae (4). 2 C. Am. 



Frasera Walt. (Swertia EP.}. Gentianaceae (i. 3). 8 N. Am. 



Fraunhofera Mart. Celastraceae. i Brazil. 



Fraxinus Tourn. ex L. Oleaceae. 50 sp. esp. N. Am., E. As., and 

 Medit. F. excelsior L., ash, in Brit. Serial accessory buds in axils. 

 Has large pinnate 1. with grooved petioles. Water is said to enter 

 , this groove and be absorbed by the 1. ; the hollow is nsu. inhabited 

 by acarids, forming a domatiutn. The fls. appear before the 1. in 

 densely crowded short racemes. Each $ consists merely of 2 sta. 

 i cpls., and is anemoph. ; but polygamy is the rule in this sp. and every 

 possible combination of the three types of fl. ( 5 , <? , ? ) occurs in 

 various places, sometimes all on one tree, or two on one and one 

 on another, and so on. Fr. a samara or one-seeded nut with termi- 

 nal wing aiding in wind distr. F. Ornus L., the 'flowering ash' 

 of S. Eur. , has K and C. The firm elastic wood of the ash is 

 valuable. 



The weeping ash is a variety propagated veg. from a single tree 

 which appeared as a sport at Wimpole in Cambridgeshire. 



Free, not ad- nor con-nate. 



Free-central placenta, one running up through centre of a i-loc. ovary, 

 which looks like a multi-loc. ov. that has lost its septa. Cf. Frimu- 

 laceae (diagram), Caryophyllaceae. 



Freerea Merrill. Icacinaceae. i Phil. Is. 



Freesia Klatt. Iridaceae (ill). 3 Cape Col. Cult. orn. perf. fl. 



Fregea Reichb. f. Orchidaceae (n. 7). i C. Am. 



Fremontia Torrey. Sterculiaceae. i California. 



French bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L.; -honeysuckle, Hedysarum\ -ju- 

 jubes, Zizyphus; -marigold, Tagetes; -rye-grass, Arrhenatherum 

 avenaceum Beauv. ; -weed, (W.I.), Commelina. 



Frenela Mirb. = Callitris Vent. p.p. (Conif.). 



Frerea Dalz. Asclepiadaceae (n. 3). i S. India. 



Fresenia DC. Compositae (3). 3 S. Afr. 



Freycinetia Gaudich. Pandanaceae. 50 Ceylon to N.Z. and Polynes., 

 usu. climbing shrubs with infl. and fl. like Pandanus. The bracts are 

 fleshy and usu. brightly coloured. In Java, Burck observed polli- 

 nation effected by a bat (Pteropus edulis] which devoured the coloured 

 bracts ; in so doing it received pollen upon its head and carried it to 

 the 9 fl. Fr. a berry, not, as in Pandanus, a drupe. 



Freyera Reichb. (Biasolettia EP., Chaerophyllum p.p. B.H.}. Umbel- 

 liferae (in. 2). 6 Medit. 



Freylinia Colla. Scrophulariaceae (il. 4). 2 S. Afr. 



Freziera Sw. ex Willd. (Ktirya p.p. EP. ). Theaceae. 10 trop. Am. 



Fridericia Mart. Bignoniaceae (i). i S. Brazil. 



Friedlandia Cham, et Schlechtd. =Diplusodon Pohl (Lythr.). 



Frijole, Phaseolus vulgaris L. 



Frijolite, Sophora. 



Fringe-tree (Am.), Chionanthus. 



Fritillaria (Tourn.). Liliaceae (v). 50 N. temp. F. Meleagris L. 



