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flexible; nerves well delineated on upper face. Mucron well marked 

 on the wide point of the leaf; hard, short, bent round. Petiloe big, 

 short, bent over, bringing the leaves upon one another on the same 

 side of the branch. 



The leaf is nearly flat, the edges but slightly drawn back. The 

 cover of the tree, little provided with leaves, on the inside is always 

 tolerably thin. 



Fruits, for the most time insulated, occasionally grouped in twos, on 

 two-year old branches. Peduncle long (fruits hanging down), inserted 

 in a light depression of the fruit; stigma persistent in a well marked 

 urnbilic. 



Olive, pretty small (length, one and one half to two centim., width 

 one to one and one quarter centim.), nearly ovoid, a trifle oblong, 

 slightly bulged out on one side. The fruit is deep black when ripe 

 and very hoary; skin thin; pulp not abundant nor fleshy, juicy, 

 colored a deep vinous red; pit big, of same form as the olive; tree of 

 middling maturity. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



The Saillern is pretty much cultivated in Province, principally 

 about Aix, and in Languedoc. 



It is a delicate tree, sensitive to cold, and consequently not many 

 old plantations of this kind can be found. It is nevertheless a meri- 

 torious variety, especially on account of the excellent quality of its 

 oil. It brings out fair crops, bears most every 3 T ear, and deserves to 

 be propagated in the situations and localities where the winters are 

 never very severe. The Saillern is almost exclusively grown for the 

 sake of its oil. 



ROUGET.* 



(Figure No. 3 3 Plate II.) 



SYNONYMES. Rougette (Montpellier, Beaucaire). Rousseoun (Avignon); Marveilletto 

 (Manosque). Pigau or Rougette, Laure(Bouches-du-rhoiie). Vermillau(Gard),(?)Caillose, 

 Cayenne, Rougeolle (Toulon). Olea rubicans (Rozier). 



DESCRIPTION. 



This tree is hardy, half erect, and a rapid grower under favorable 

 circumstances; trunk cylindrical, canaliculate; bark blackish gray, 

 wrinkled; the main limbs are either horizontal or upright; the forms 

 of a vase or a ball are the most favorable to its development; shoots 

 very numerous. 



Branches, numerous, even on the old wood, hardy, long, thin, hori- 

 zontal or semi-erect, of a dull gray, wrinkled, covered with many 

 small, regularly distributed freckles; wood irregularly furrowed, 

 even on old branches; knots prominent. 



Leaf, lanceolate, pretty short, large (mean length five and one half 

 to six and one-half centim., width one to one and one fourth centim.); 

 upper face deep green, with pretty numerous punctures stamped on 

 the edges; under slightly coated, greenish white; limbs thick, with 

 edges slightly drawn back; nerves little marked on both faces; 

 mucron tender, little prominent, but well defined in the plane of 

 the leaf. 



* Fruited this year under one of its synonymes of Cayenne. 



