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ARBORETUM ET FRUT1CETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Engravings. Willd. Berl. Baumz., p. 155. t. 2. f. 2. ; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st. edit., vol. vi. ; 

 and our fig. 1251. 



12.51. F. parvifolia. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaflets 5 7 pairs, sessile, roundish ovate and oblong, at- 

 tenuated at the base ; quite entire at the base, but sharply serrated at the 

 apex, mucronate. Flowers naked. Branches purplish, trigonal at the top. 

 (Don's Mill.) A deciduous tree. Levant. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. Introd. 

 1822. Flowers greenish yellow ; April and May. Samara smaller than 

 those of the common ash ; ripe in October. Hort. Soc. Garden, and Lod. 



t 5. F. (p.) ARGE'NTEA Lois. The s\\very-leaved Ash. 



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

 Our fig. 2098. in p. 1108. 



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.) A deciduous tree. 

 Corsica, in the fissures of rocks. Height 30 ft. 

 to 40 ft. Introduced in 1835. Flowers greenish 

 yellow ; April and May. 



This variety must not be confounded with F. 

 e. foliis argenteis, which is merely a variegation 

 of the common ash (F. excelsior). 



? 6. F. (p.) OXYCA'RPA Willd. The sharp-fruited 

 Ash. 



1100. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 55. 

 Fl. Taur. 2. p. 450. ; F. O'rnus 



Identification. Willd. Sp., 4. 

 Synonumes. F. oxyphylla Bi, 



Pall. Itin. Taur. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 1252. from a living specimen. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaflets 23 pairs, almost 

 sessile, lanceolate, acuminated, serrated, gla- 

 brous. Flowers naked. Samara lanceolate, 

 attenuated at both ends, mucronate. Branchlets 

 green, with white dots. Buds brown. (Don's 



1252. F. (p.) oxycarpa. 



