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TRIBE II. FRAXINEJE. Fruit a samara. Flowers dicecious, apetalous. Leaves 
pinnate. 
8. FRAXINUS. Flowers in lateral and terminal panicles. Calyx minute or rarely want- 
ing. Trees. . 
Tape HI. FORESTIERE4JE. Fruit a drupe. Flowers dicecious or perfect, apeta- 
lous. Leaves simple. : 
1 FORESTIERA. Flowers mostly dicecious, from scaly axillary buds. Shrubs. 
l. OLEA, Tourn Orrvr. 
Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla short-salver-form, 4-lobed. Stamens 2. Style 
short. Stigma globose or 2-lobed. Drupe mostly 1-seeded, oily.— Trees or 
Shrubs, with opposite coriaceous entire leaves, and small white fragrant flowers, 
in axillary racemes or panicles. 
1. O. Americana, L. Smooth; leayes oblong or obovate-oblong, nar- 
rowed into a petiole; racemes compound, shorter than the leaves ; flowers 
polygamo-dicecious, bracted ; drupe ovoid, dark purple. — Light soil, near the 
coast, Florida to North Carolina. March and April. — A shrub or small tree, 
With whitish bark and evergreen leaves. “Drupe as large as a pea, bitter and 
astringent. 
2. CHIONANTHUS, xt FnrNGE-TnEE. 25^ 
Calyx small, 4-cleft. Corolla wheel-shaped, 4-parted, with long and linear 
lobes. Stamens 2—4, included. Style very short: stigma notched. Drupe 
fleshy, 1-seeded. — A shrub, with oblong entire" deciduous leaves, and delicate 
White flowers in slender axillary panicles, appearing with the leaves. 
1. C. Virginica, L.— Light soil, Florida, and northward. April and 
May. — Shrub 6°-10° high. Leaves smooth or pubescent, narrowed into a 
petiole. Panicles longer than the leaves, leafy-bracted. Flowers on slender 
drooping pedicels. Corolla-lobes linear, 1! long. Drupe ovoid, purple. 
3. FRAXINUS, Toum. Asm. 
Flowers dicecious and (in our species) apetalous. Calyx 4-lobed or toothed, 
minute, sometimes wanting. Stamens 2-4: filaments shorter than the large 
Anthers. Stigma 2-cleft. Fruit (samara) dry, winged above, 1—9-seeded. Co- 
-fyledons elliptical. Radicle slender. — Trees. Leaves petioled, odd-pinnate, 
uous. VE 
(9 Fruit naked and terete or barely margined and 2-edged at the base, winged above : 
BS _ leaflets 7 — 9, stalked. 
1 F. Americana, L. (Wurrg Asn.) Branches and petioles smooth; 
ts ovate-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, entire, or slightly serrate 
Above, smooth on the upper surface, pubescent or glaucous beneath ; fruit terete, 
Striate, dilated at the apex into a cuneate-linear or lanceolate obtuse or notchec 
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