OLE AC E^. (olive FAMILY.) 



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Tribe 11. FRAXIHTEJE. Fruit a samara. Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Leavei 

 pinnate. 



3. FRAXINUS. Flowers ia lateral and tern^inal panicles. Calyx minute or rarely want- 



ing. Trees. 

 Tribe III. PORESTIERE.aE. Fruit a drupe. Flowers dioecious or perfect, apeta- 

 lous. Leaves simple. 



4. FORESTIERA. Flowers mostly dioecious, from scaly axillary buds. Shrubs. 



1. OLEA, Toum. Olive. 



Calyx 4-tootlied. 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; leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, nar- 

 rowed into a petiole ; racemes compound, shorter than the leaves ; flowers 

 polygamo-dioecious, 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, L. Fringe-Tree. 



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. 



I. 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. Ash. 



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 -2-seeded. Co- 

 tyledons elliptical. Radicle slender. — Trees. Leaves petioled, odd-pinnate, 

 deciduous. 



* Fruit naked and terete or barely margined and 2-edged at the base, winged above : 

 leaflets 7-9, stalked. 



1. P. Americana, L. (White Ash) Branches and petioles smooth; 

 leaflets 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 notched 

 wing. (F. acuminata and F. juglandifolia, Lam ) — Swamps, Florida to Mis* 



