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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



Spec. Char., S^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, niu- 

 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 1 822, and flowering in April and May. 

 In the environs of London, at Ham House, there is 

 a tree 54 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 

 6 in., and of the head 40 ft. In the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, and in the arboretum at Messrs. 

 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, and particu- 

 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. excelsior. 



X 5. F. (e. p.) arge'ntea Lois. The sAvQvy-leaved Ash. 



Identification. Lois. Fl. Gall., 697. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 54. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves 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 argenteis, which is merely 

 a variegation of the common ash (F. excelsior). 



$ 6. F. (v.. p.) oxyca'rpa WUld. The sharp-fruited Ash. . 



IdeiUificafion. Willd. Sn., 4. p. 1100. ; Don's Mill, 4. p. 55. 

 Syiumi/mes. F. oxyphylla Jiicb. Fl. Taur., 2. p. 450. ; F. O'rnus 



Fall. Itin. Taur. 

 Engraving. Out fig. 1053. 



Spec. Char., i^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. {Do7i''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 

 in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. Of all 

 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. 



i 7. F. (e.) pa'llida Bosc. The pa\e-barkcd Ash. 



Identification. Bosc ex Spreng. Syst., 1. p. 96. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 56. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves with 3 pairs of glabrous, almost sessile, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, toothed leaflets. Branches yellow. {Don's Milt., adapted.) In 

 Don's sillier 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. 

 excelsior. The specimen in the Horticultural Society's Garden was, in 

 1834 (having been 10 years planted), 10 ft. high. 



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