DIAND. MONOG. 3 



8. SALVIA. Cal. 2-lipped. Cor. ringent. Filaments attached 

 laterally to a footstalk*. 



**** Perianth double, superior. 



3. CIRC^A. Cal. 2-leaved. Cor. of 2 petals. Caps. 2-celled. 

 Cells with 1 seed. 



***** perianth single or none. 



2. FRAXINUS. Cal. 0, or 4-cleft. Cor. 0, or of 4 petals. Caps. 

 2-celled, 2-seecled, compressed, and foliaceous at the extre- 

 mity. Seeds solitary, pendulous. (Flowers polygamous.) 



9. LEMNA* Peria?ithsu}g\e, monophyllous, membranaceous, ur- 

 ceolate. Fruit a Utricle. 



10. CLADIUM. Cal. Glumes of 1 valve, 1 -flowered, imbricated, 

 outer glumes sterile. Cor. 0. Fruit a Nut, with a loose ex* 

 ternal coat (Epicarp), destitute of bristles at its base. 



(Salicornia, MONANDR. Schcenus albus and Eriop/i. alp., TRI-- 

 ANDR. MONOG.) 



2. DIGYNIA. 



11. ANTHOXANTHUM. Cal. Glume of 2 valves, 1 -flowered. 

 Cor. Glume double, each of 2 valves i ext. awned; {'nit small, 

 awnless. 



1. MONOGYNIA, 



1. LIGUSTRUM, 



1 . L.vtilgare ( Privet), leaves elliptico-lanceolate somewhata cute.j 



panicle compact. Lighff. p. 72. J3. B. t. 764. 

 HAB. Hedges, not common : about Hamilton,, Light/. About Alva, 



between Kinross and Stirling, Mr. Arnott. FL July. J? . 

 Leaves opposite, sessile, entire, more or less obtuse, remaining through 



the winter if the weather be miid. Flowers small, white. Berries 



black, globose. 



2. FRAXINUS. 



1. F. excelsior (common Ash), leaflets lanceolate acuminate ser- 

 rate, flowers destitute of perianth. Light f. p. G41. JS. B. 

 t. 1692. 



HAB. Woods and hedges. Ft. May. T? . 



One of the noblest of our trees, remarkable fot the curving upward of 

 the extremities of the lower pendent branches in old plants. Leaves 

 pinnated with an odd one. Leaflets 13 15. A variety (?) is found, 

 rarely in England, with many entire leaves, the F. heterophylla of 

 authors. In F. excels, flowers polygamous, clustered, appearing be- 



* The structure of the stamens in this genus is very curious, but is not 

 here correctly described. Brown considers them as having a branching fila- 

 ment, one division ascending and bearing one cell of an anther, the other 

 abortive, often indeed bearing the rudiment of another cell. 



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