FRAXINUS APOOYXACE^E 430 : ' 



bumen , or exalbumeiious . Cotyl edoiis flat, or plano-convex . 

 1 FRAXINUS Toiirn. L. Gen. n. 1160. 



Trees with rather light tough wood, chiefly opposite and odd- 

 pinnate leaves, and small flowers in panicles, appearing with or 

 before the leaves from separate buds. Flowers dioecious or poly- 

 gamous, sometimes perfect. Calyx very small, 4-eleft or irregu- 

 larly toothed or entire or wanting. Petals; when present, 4, 

 induplicate-valvate in the bud, either separate or united in purrs 

 at the very base, often wanting. Stamens 2, sometimes 3 or 4. 

 Ovary 2-celled, with a pair of ovules at the summit of each cell. 

 Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit an entire dry indehiscent samara, with 

 the wing mainly terminal, and suspended seeds. 



Ft (ftegana Nutt. Syly. iii, 59, t. 99. ( OREGON ASH. ) A tree 20-100 

 tYot high and 1-^4 feet in diameter: leaves and young branehlets villous- 

 pubescent; leaflets 5-7, lanceolate-oblong to oval, usually acuminate, entire 

 or nearly so, 2^4 inches long, veiny, the upper surface soon glabrous : 

 flowers dioecious ; all with a minute calyx and no petals; staminate panicles 

 dense, with oblong anthers; pistillate in ample, afc length rather loose 

 panicles : fruit with nearly clavate and slightly compressed body,- the mar- 

 gined edges gradually widened upward into the oblanceolate, wing, an 

 inch or more long. By streams and swales, California to Brit/Columbia. 



ORDER LX APOCYXACE^E Lindl. Nat.- Syst, ed. 2, -299. , 



Perennial herbs, shrubs or trees with mostly acrid milky 

 juice, opposite, verticillate, or alternate entire leaves without 

 stipules, and perfect regular 5-merous flowers. Calyx free, or 

 incurs adherent to the very base of the ovaries. Corolla 

 conrolute and often twisted in the bud. Stamens 5, borne on 

 tlte corolla and alternate with its lobes : anthers 2-celled, dis- 

 posed to cohere with the stigma : pollen-grains simple, often 

 glutinoirs. Ovary of 2 distinct' carpels with the styles x>r stig 

 mas united, or 1-celled with 2 parietal placentae, or 2-celled. 

 Ovules few to numerous, anatfopous or ampin tropous. Seeds 

 often bearing a coma. Embryo large, in sparing albumen. 

 I APOGYNUM' Tourn. L. Gen. n. 305 



Perennial herbs with branching stems, opposite mucronate 

 tipped leaves and small white or rose-colored flowers in terminal 

 and axillary small cymes. Calyx 5-parted, its short tube co- 

 herent by the disk with the base of the ovaries. Corolla cam- 

 panulate, 5-cleft, toward the base bearing; a -triangular scale-like 

 appendage opposite each lobe. Stamens borne on the base of : 

 the corolla : filaments very ahort : anthers of firm texture, sagit- 

 tate^ conniving around the solid stigma, to a ring of which the 

 broad summit of the connective adheres. Proper style none; 

 Ova-dee two, ovoid, in fruit becoming a pair of long slender folli- 

 cles. Glands 5, around the base of -the ovaries. 



A aiidrosu'mM'oliiim L. Bp. 213 ; Sterr erect with' divergent brabcli- 



