48 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
1. ARMERIA, Willd. 
Leaves all radical, narrow; flowers small, on naked 
scapes, collected into dense umbellate cymes, surrounded 
by an involucre of bracts; calyx funnel-shaped. 
A. alpina, Willd.; leaves linear, acute; probably an 
alpine form of A. vulgaris, Willd. (Statice Armerza, L.), 
the Thrift or Sea-Pink; high elevations, rare; Furka, 
Styria, Carpathians, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. A. plantaginea, 
Willd. ; leaves somewhat broader, outer involucral bracts 
acuminate; Valais (very rare), Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 
Order LI.—OLEACE. 
Flowers small, unisexual or bisexual; calyx 4-lobed or 
0; petals 4 or 0; stamens 2; leaves simple, or pinnate 
with an odd leaflet, always opposite; fruit a berry or 
samara. A small order of trees or shrubs; mostly 
Northern. Not alpine. 
1. LIGUSTRUM, Tourn. 
Flowers small, white, in terminal cymes; calyx small, 
4-toothed ; corolla 4—lobed ; fruit a 2-celled berry. Shrubs. 
with opposite entire usually evergreen leaves. 
L. vulgare, L., Privet; thickets and hedges, common. 
2. FRAXINUS, Tourn. 
Flowers dicecious ; calyx and corolla often 0; fruit a 
broadly winged samara. Trees with opposite pinnate 
leaves. 
F. excelsior, L., Ash; common. /. Ovnus, L., the 
