1240 ARBORETUM AND FUUTICETUM. PART III. 



5f 28. F. (a.) elli'ptica Bosc. The eWiptic-lcaved Ash. 



Identification. Bosc, L c. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 56. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 183a 



Spec. Char., Jyc. Leaves with 3 pairs of leaflets, pilose beneath, oblong, 

 mucronate, a little toothed. Buds fulvous. Branches brownish black. 

 (Don's Mill., iv. p. 56.) A tree, a native of North America. Intro- 

 duced in 1824, and flowering in April and May. There are plants of this 

 sort in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. 



!if 29. F. (a.) fu'sca Bosc. The brovfn-branched Ash. 



Identification. Bosc, 1. c. ; Don's MilL, 4. p. 56. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves with 3 pairs of leaflets, glabrous above, but the veins villous beneath ; 

 leaflets oblong, mucronate, unequally toothed. Branches brown. {Don's Mil/., iv. p. 5(>.) A tree, 

 a native of North America. Introduced in 1823, and flowering in April and May. We are notawarc 

 of this sort being in British gardens. 



f 30. F. (a.) ruVa Bosc. The rufous-Z/ai/t-rf Ash. 



Jdentification. Bosc, I.e. ; Don's Mill, 4. p. 56. 



Spec. Char.,S(C. Leaves with 2 pairs of leaflets, beset with rufous hairs beneath, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nated, cuspidate, unequally toothed. {Dun's Mill., iv, p. 56.) A tree, a native of North America. 

 Introduced in 1822, and flowering in April and May ; but we have not seen the plant. 



i 31. F. (a.) panno^sa Vent, ct Bosc. The cloth-like-/c«wd Ash. 



Jdentification. Vent, et Bosc, 1. c. ; Don's Mill, 4. p. 56. 

 Engt-auing. The plate of this species in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves with 3 pairs of leaflets, villousiy tomentose beneath, 

 petiolate, ovate, quite entire, attenuated at both ends. Buds fulvous. 

 Petioles glabrous. (Doit's Mill., iv. p. 36.) A tree, a native of Carolina. 

 Introduced in 1820, and flowering in April and May. There are plants of 

 this sort in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges ; and there is a tree, at Ham 

 House 67 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk is 2 ft. 8 in., and of the head 

 48 ft. A portrait of this tree, as it appeared in the autiunn of 1835, will 

 be found in our last Volume. As far as the present gardener, Mr. James 

 Loudon, has ob.served, this tree has never flowered. 



i 32. F. Bo'sc// G. Don. Bosc's Ash. 



Identification. Don's Mill., 4. p. 55. 

 Synonijme. F. nina Bosc, hut not Willd. 



Spec. Char., SfC. Leaves with 3 pairs of glabrous leaflets, oblong, acuminate, and toothed. Common 

 petioles winged at the ba.<ic. Buds blackish. Branches cinereous. Flowers naked. (X)on'i >/«'//., iv. 

 p. 55.) A tree, a native of North America, flowering in May and June. 



a 33. F. (.\.) polemoniifo'lia Pair. The Greek- Valerian-leaved Ash. 



Identification. Poir. in N. Du Ham., 4. p. 66. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. .54. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Si/noni/mes. F. nina Desf. Hort. Par. et Arb., 1. p. 104. ; F. n^a (appendiculata) Pert. Ench., 2. 

 p. 6(H. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaflets usually 4 — 5 pairs, quite glabrous, sharply toothed, 

 ovate, nearly sessile, approximate, 6 — 7 lines long, and 3 lines broad, acute. 

 Petioles a little winged ; common petioles winged. Branches of a livid 

 lead-colour. (Don's Alill., iv. p. 54.) A branched shrub, a native of North 

 America, flowering in April and May. Introduced in 1812. There are 

 plants bearing this name in the collection of the Messrs. Loddiges, but we 

 can see nothing in their leaves resembling any species of Polemonium. 



$ 34. F. (a.) tri'ptera Nutt. The three-winged/r«//ff/ Ash. 



Idcnt^ation. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 232. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 56. 



Spec. Char.,S[C. Leaflets obovate, entire, tomentose beneath, oblique at the base. Samara broad, 

 elliptic-obovate, mostly 3-winged, attenuated at the base, l-seeded. .Seed .'3-sided. (Don't Mill, 

 iv. p. 56.) A tree, a native of South Carolina, in oak forests, not yet introduced. 



"t .35. F. chine'nsis Boxb. The China Ash. 



Identification. Roxb. Fl. Ind., 1. p. 150. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 55. 



Spec. Char., SfC. Leaflets from 3 to ", lanceolate, serrated. Panicles axillary and terminal. 

 Leaves glabrous. Lateral leaflets on short petioles, and smaller than the terminal one, which is 

 protruded on a winged petiole. Branches erect. Flowers apetalous. Panicles drooping. .Style 

 long and curved. (Don's Mill., iv. p. 55.) A tree, growing to the height of from 12 ft. to 20 ft. ; a 

 native of China ; and flowering in April. We have not heard of this species being in Britain. 



