1230 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART IIT. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaflets 5—7 pairs, sessile, roundish 
ovate and oblong, attenuated at the base ; quite entire 
at the base, but sharply serrated at the apex, mu- 
cronate. Flowers naked. Branches purplish, tri- 
gonal at the top. (Don’s Mill., iv. p.54.) A tree, 
from 30 ft. to 40 ft. high, a native of the Levant. 
Introduced in 1822, and flowering in April and May. 
In the environs of London, at Ham House, there is =, Me 4i.V2 OS; 
a tree 54ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. & aS Wea SSIES 
6in., and of the head 40ft. In the Horticultural ¢4 Yy* 
Society’s Garden, and in the arboretum at Messrs. (7, 
Loddiges’s, there are several varieties of this tree ; 
some of them having leaflets almost as long as those 
of the common ash. In other places, aad particu- {4 
larly in the nursery lines at Messrs. Loddiges’s, there 
are plants, some of the leaves of which have roundish 
leaflets, and others long ones; so that it is impossible 
for us to doubt that this kind is only a variety of F. excélsior. 
+ 5. F. (&. Pp.) aree’ntEA Lois. The silvery-leaved Ash. 
Identification. Lois. Fl. Gall., 697.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 54. 
Spec. Char., §c. eaves with usually 3 pairs of rather coriaceous, elliptic, 
ovate, shortly cuspidate, bluntly toothed leaflets, on short petiolules. 
Leaves silvery grey. (Don’s Mill., iv. p.54.) A tree, a native of Corsica, 
in the fissures of rocks. Introduced in 1835, and flowering in April and 
May. There are plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. This 
variety must not be confounded with F. e. foliis argénteis, which is merely 
a variegation of the common ash (F’. excélsior). 
+ 6. F. (z. ep.) oxyca’Rpa Willd. The sharp-fruited Ash. 
Identification. Willd. Sp., 4. p. 1100.; Don’s Mill. 4. p. 55. 
Synonymes. _F. oxyphylla Bieb. Fl. Taur., 2. p. 450. ; F. O’rnus 
Pall. Itin. Taur. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1053. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaflets 2—3 pairs, almost ses- 
sile, lanceolate, acuminated, serrated, glabrous. 
Flowers naked. Samara lanceolate, attenuated 
at both ends, mucronate. Branchlets green, with ,.& 
white dots. Buds brown. (Don’s Mill., iv.® 
p. 55.) A tree, a native of Caucasus. Intro- 
duced in 1815, and flowering in May. There , 
are plants of this very distinct kind of ash in & 
the garden of the Horticultural Society, and “Qyg@s 
in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. Of all WN 
the varieties of the small-leaved ash, this ap- 
pears to us to be the most beautiful, except, 
however, the pendulous variety of F. /entisci- 
folia. The leaves are of a dark glossy green, 
and are produced in tufts at the ends of the \ 
branches. 
¥ 7. I. (&.) pa’Luiwa Bosc. The pale-barked Ash. 
Identification. Bosc ex Spreng. Syst., 1. p. 96.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 56. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves with 3 pairs of glabrous, almost sessile, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, toothed leaflets. Branches yellow. (Don's Mill., adapted.) In 
Don’s Miller this kind is stated to be a native of North America; but in 
the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and in the arboretum of Messrs. 
Loddiges, the plants to which this name is affixed obviously belong to F. 
excélsior. The specimen in the Horticultural Society’s Garden was, in 
1834 (having been 10 years planted), 10 ft. high. 



