652 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



beneath. Flowers complete or hermaphrodite, greenish white. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves. Young branches purplish 

 or livid, with yellow dots. Buds cinereous. (Don's Mil!.} A deciduous tree. 

 South of Europe. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1 730. Flowers 

 white ; May and June. Samara brown ; ripe in October. 



1265. O'rnus europae^a. 



A very handsome small tree, and a free flowerer. It and also the following 

 species, and probably all those of both the genera Fraxinus and O'rnus, ex- 

 travasate sap, which, when it becomes concrete, is mild and mucilaginous. 

 This sap is produced in more abundance by O'rnus europae^a and O. rotundi- 

 folia, than by any other species ; collected from these trees, it forms an 

 article of commerce under the name of manna, which is chiefly obtained from 

 Calabria and Sicily, where the tree abounds. 



2. O. (E.) ROTUNDIFO'LIA Pers. The round-leafleted Flowering, 

 or Manna, Ash. 



Identification . Pers. Ench., 2. p. 605. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 57. 

 Sunonymes. .Fraxinus rotundifolia Ait. Hort. Kcw. 3. p. 445. ; F. mannifera 

 ~'~ V. Aim. 182. f. 4. 



and our figs. 1267. 



1267. o. (e.) rotundifolia. 



Hort. Pluk. Aim. 182. f. 4. 



Engravings. Willd. Baum., t. 2. f. 1. ; Pluk. Aim., p. 4 

 and 1268. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves with 3 5 pairs of roundish-ovate, 

 bluntly serrated, almost sessile leaflets, which are 

 narrow at the base, rather small, and glabrous. 

 Petioles channeled. Flowers with purplish pe- 

 tals, polygamous. Peduncles axillary. Branches 

 and buds brown. The flowers come out in the 

 spring, before the leaves, like those of other 

 species of this genus, as well as of that of Frax- 

 inus. (Don's Mill.) A low tree. Calabria and the 

 Levant, &c. Height 16 ft. to 20 ft. ; in England 

 30 ft. to 40ft. Introd. 1697. Flowers white ; April. 



