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leaves, but on other plants also ; Sphae'ria Candida Sckwein.^ on i^axinus 

 pubescens; S. tremelloides Sc/nim., S. spondylina Fr., S. eunomia Fr. ; S. 

 excipuliformis 2^r., also on the maple; S. spina Schwein.; S. ocellata Fr., 

 also on willows ; S. corticis Pers,, also on the poplar ; S. pruinosa Fr., 

 Dothidea jPraxini Fr., Hysterium jPraxini Pers., Hyphelia nigrescens Fr., 

 Septaria i^'raxini Fr. ; jEcidium i^raxini Schivein., on leaves. — M. J. B." 

 Page 1217., to the paragraph headed " F. e. 4 aurea" add : " In the park at 

 Clervaux, near Chat-Merault, is a tree of this species, which, when 34< 

 years planted, was 29 ft. high." 

 V.excehior. 1217., to the paragraph headed " V. e.S purpurascens" &AA'. 

 " There is a plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden, under the 

 name of F. purpurea." 

 Statistics. 1225., add to '^ Recorded Ash Trees in England :" " In the 

 Gentleman'' s Magazine for ISO^, p. 909., a curious ash tree is figured, with 

 two trunks, parted, and quite distinct at a short distance from the root, 

 and afterwards joined again. This tree, which grew at Shirley Street, near 

 Birmingham, was spHt to cure a rupture in the child of a farmer in the neigh- 

 bourhood ; and it is supposed that the two parts, thus separated, became each 

 covered with bark, and have thus formed two trunks. The trees that have 

 been tried for this purpose are preserved with great care ; as the belief is that, 

 if the tree is felled, the rupture returns, mortifies, and kills the person for- 

 merly cured. Mr. Fennel, in an article on the ash, in the Mirror, vol. xxv. 

 p. 212., mentions a remarkable ash which grew at South Runeton, in Norfolk, 

 and which, when cut down, though only 45 ft. high, was found to have a root 

 133 ft. in length." 



1226., add to " Recorded Ash Trees in Scotland:" " Mr. Fennel mentions * an 

 aged ash, known by the name of the Maiden of Midstrath, at Birse, 

 in the north of Scotland, which perished by the winds in 1833, and 

 was supposed to have existed ever since the end of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury. At the time of its fall, the circumference of its trunk was found 

 to be 21 ft. near the earth, and 18 ft. at the elevation of 9 ft. from 

 the ground. Another, at Dumbarton, is said 

 to have been 17 ft. in circumference." 

 1227., add to " Recorded Ash Trees in Ireland:" " Mr. 

 Fennel records ' one at Galway, in Ireland, the 

 circumference of which is said to have been 

 42 ft ; another Irish specimen is mentioned 

 by Arthur Young, as havinir, in the course of 

 35 years, nearly attained the height of 80 ft.' 

 (Minor, vol. xxv. p. 212.)" 

 Existing Ash Trees, ^c. 1227. i. 23., for " above," 



read " in p. 1 225." 

 1227. 1. 35., after " head," add: *' circumference of the 

 trunk at 3ft. from the ground, 31 ft.; and 

 at 6 ft., 16 ft. 6 in.; height about 90 ft." 

 F. (c.) angustifulia. 1229., insert : " Engraving. Our 



fig. 2511." 

 F. \cntiscifolia. 1231., for "fig. 1034.," substitute ''fig. 



2512." 

 F. cpiptera. 1237., add to the list of Engravings: " 



species in our Volumes of Plates. ' 

 1238. 1. 3., for " 30," read " 50." 

 1. 6. for " 15," read " 20." 

 1240., last line, for " We have not heard of this species being in Britain," 

 read : " Mr. Gordon informs us that there is a fine tree of this species 

 in the Surrey Zoological Garden, and another in Buchanan's arbo- 

 retum, Caiubcrwell." 

 1246., in the alphabetical list of i^'raxinus and O'rnus, under " F. juglandi- 



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