oSG lltAXlNL'S EXLELSIUR. 



8 F. E. FOi.iis AUGKNTF.is. Si/rrf-siri/K </-/((! fli /rtt Ei/ro/tfd/i A.s/i ; F. c. ar^eti' 

 ten, of Loiidnn : !''/( /tc tn-L^nntc of tlu^ Fri'iicli. with IfMllcis variegated with 

 uliite. 



*. 1\ K. i.uTEA. Yillow-cd <rc(l-lenjletcd Enropam As/i, with tlie leaflets edged 

 with y(>ll()W. 



10. \\ K. KROSA. Erosr-hdflctcd Enrn}H'<in As/i^ with tlic leaflets crosely 

 tnoih(^(l. 



11. \\ E. noRizoNTAMs. lioii zoiilitl-hraiicheil Enrupctm Ash; Ertnc liorizon- 

 tnl. olihi' French, with the hraiidies sprcadiuti horizontally. 



\'i. V. v.. VKKRi'cosA. ^V(l|tc(^'b(lrh^cd Eii/o/xf/n Ash ; Ereiieverruf/ueJLv, of the 

 French, with its branches warty. 



13. \\ E. VERRUCOSA PENDULA. Pemlulous-bninched Wdrted-barlced European 

 Ash. 



11. F. E. .\A.\A. Dwarf European Ash, wjiich seldom exceeds a yard in hcitrht. 

 The leaves of this variety resemble those of the species, but the leaflets are much 

 smaller and closer together. 



1.5. F. E. FUNGOSA. Eunjnrous-harficd European Ash. 



10. F. E. VERTiciLLATA. Whorlcd-leavsd European Ash ; Frene a feuille verti- 

 cil/ees, of the French. 



17. F. E. viLLOsA NOVA. VUlons-leaJleted European Ask, a new seedling, acci- 

 dentally discovered by M. Descemet, of which there are plants in the Odessa col- 

 lection. 



18. F. E. HRTEROFHYLLA. Vurions-leaved European Ash ; FraxiniisheteropliyUa, 

 of Don, liOudon, and others; Frene dune feuille, of the French; Verschieden- 

 blittri(re Esrhe, of the Germans. The leaves of this variety are trifoliate, den- 

 tately seriated, usually simple, but sometimes with three or five leaflets, three or 

 four inches long, ovate, sub-cordate, or acuminate at the base and apex. The 

 samarse are oblong-lanceolate, one inch in length, obtuse and emarginate at the 

 apex. The branches are dotted, and the buds are black. Some botanists con- 

 sider this kind as a species; but Sir T. Dick Lauder states that Mr. McNab, 

 of the Edinburgh botanic garden, sowed seeds produced by the tree in that gar- 

 den, supposed to have been originally planted by Southerland, and found that 

 the plants had pimiated leaves; and M. Sinning, garden inspector of Poppilsdorf, 

 near Bonn, sowed seeds of the common European ash, which he gathered in a 

 distant forest, many of which came np with simple leaves. Nearly one thou- 

 sand of these plants were transplanted, and left to become trees; when they were 

 about eight feet high, nearly twenty of them were observed to have simple leaves, 

 and almost as many to have only three leaflets; though occasionally they showed 

 a greater number. 



19. F. E. HETEROFHYLLA VERiEGATA. Variegated Various-leaved Ein'opean Ash, 

 discovered in 1830, in the grounds of Captain Moore, of Eglantine, near Hillsbo- 

 rough, in the county of Down, in Ireland. The variegation appeared in sum- 

 mer, on the point of one of the shoots of a tree of fifteen years' growth ; and 

 Captain Moore marked it, and had the portion of shoot which showed the varie- 

 gated leaves taken off, and grafted the following spring. The parent tree, it is 

 said, never has since shown the slightest tendency to variegation, but the grafted 

 plants continue true. 



20. F. E. ANGUSTiFOLiA. Narrow-leaved European Ash ; Frened feuilles itroites. 

 of the French ; Schmalbldttrige Esche, of the Germans. The leaflets of this vari- 

 ety are sessile, lanceolate, remotely denticulated, occurring in three or four pairs, 

 from^an inch and a half to two inches long. The peduncles below the leaves are 

 solitary, and about two inches in length. The flowers, which put forth in May 

 are naked; and the samarse are entire at the apex, and acute at the base. The 

 branchlets are green, dotted with white, and tlie buds brown. This tree is a 

 native of Spain. 



