ARBORETUM ET FIIUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



GENUS II. 



NEGVNDO Moench. 



THE NEGUNDO, or Box ELDER. 

 DiceY'ia Pentandria. 



Lin. Syst. 



Identification. Moench Meth... 334. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 596. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 647. and 651. 



tiynonymes. A^cer Lin. ; Negiindium Kafinesque. 



Derivation. This genus was constituted from A\er Nfgtindo L. ; but the meaning of the latter 

 word is unknown. Probably, it may be merely the Illinois name of Gigueres (from gfguer, to 

 romp, alluding to the tremulous and playful motion of the long pinnated leaves) Latinised. 



Gen. Char. Sexes dioecious. Flowers without a corolla. Calyx with 45 

 unequal teeth. Male flowers upon thread-shaped pedicels, and disposed 

 in fascicles ; anthers 4 5, linear, sessile. Female flowers disposed in 

 racemes. (Dec. Prod.) Deciduous trees, natives of North America. 



Leaves compound, opposite, exstipulate, deciduous; impari-pinnate. 

 There is only one species in British gardens. 



*r 1. N. FRAXINIFO'LIUM Nutt. The Ash-leaved Negundo. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., l.p. 



253. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 596. ; Don's 



Mill., l.p. 651. 

 Synonymes. A*cer Negiindo L., Mich. 



Arb. ; N. aceroldes Mcench and Torr. 



If Gray ; Negiindium americanum 



liafin. ; the Ash-leaved Maple, the 



Black Ash ; E'rable a Feuilles de 



Frfene, Fr.\ E'rable a Giguieres, Illi- 

 nois ; Eschenblattriger Ahorn, Ger. ; 



Acero americano, Ital. 

 Engravings. Mich. Arb., 2. *. !<).; 



Schmidt Arb., 1. 1. 12.; Wats. Demi., 



1. 172.; the plate of this species in Arb. 



Brit., 1st edit., vol.v.; and our fig. 164. 



from Schmidt. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves of from 

 3 to 5 leaflets, the opposite 

 ones coarsely and sparingly 

 toothed, the odd one oftener 

 3-lobed than simple. (Dec. 

 Prod.) A deciduous tree, of 

 the middle size. Canada to 

 Carolina. Height 15 ft. to 

 30ft.; in England 30ft. to 

 40 ft. Introduced in 1688. 

 Flowers yellowish green, ap- 

 pearing with the leaves; 

 April. Keys brown ; ripe in 

 August. Decaying leaves of a rich yellow. Naked young wood smooth, 

 and of a fine pea green. The tree in "the Hort. Soc. Garden is a male ; but 

 there is a female plant in the collection of W. Borrer, Esq., Henfield. 



Varieties, 



Z N. f. 2 crispum G. Don. (The plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. v.; and 

 our Jig. 165.) Leaves variously cut and curled. The plant of this 

 variety in the arboretum of the Hort. Soc. is a male : the inflo- 

 rescence consists of pendulous panicles of flowers, that are green, 

 with some redness from the colour of the anthers; and each i 

 placed upon a slender peduncle of about 1 in. long. 



N. f. Sviolaceum Booth. Young shoots covered with a violet bloom. 

 This appearance is not uncommon in the young shoots of different 

 species of 4 v cer as well as in Negiindo. 



A'c^tim/o /raxinifoliuin. 



