568 FRAXINUS 



Var. FOLIIS ARGENTEIS. Leaflets bordered with white ; often deformed. 



Var. GLOBOSA. A dwarf rounded bush, densely branched. Vars. NANA 

 and MYRTI FOLIA are much the same. 



Var. GLOMERATA, Simon-Louis. Leaflets as many as fifteen closely set on 

 the common stalk,, comparatively short and broad ; some of them 3 ins. long 

 and 2 ins. broad, stout in texture, basal pair of leaflets close to the branch ; 

 all somewhat hooded and puckered. Very distinct. 



Var. HETEROPHYLLA. One-leaved Ash. In this remarkable variety the 

 terminal leaflet only, or occasionally one or two more, is developed. In other 

 respects it is the same as the common ash. Its one leaflet is oval or ovate, 

 long-stalked, toothed, and variable in size, usually 3 to 6 ins. long, \\ to i\ ins. 

 wide, but often proportionately broader or shorter. I have measured it as 

 much as 8 ins. long and 5 ins. wide. This variety has arisen independently 

 in many places, both cultivated and wild, and varies considerably. It is also 

 known as integrifolia, monophylla, and simplicifolia. 



Var. HETEROPHYLLA LACINIATA. Leaves jaggedly and coarsely toothed. 



Var. HETEROPHYLLA PENDULA. All the branches weeping ; this and the 

 preceding varieties have leaves as in heterophylla. 



Var. MONSTROSA. Branchlets often fasciated ; leaves often alternate. 



Var. PENDULA, Alton. Weeping Ash. There are various forms of weeping 

 ash. The commonest has all its branches weeping, forming a spreading, 

 umbrella-like head. The most remarkable example is in the Earl of 

 Harrington's garden at Elvaston, and is 98 ft. high, with streamer branches 

 reaching to within 20 ft. of the ground. Var. PENDULA WENTWORTHII, 

 Wentworth Weeping Ash, has an erect trunk and leading shoot, but the 

 branches are very pendulous. It thus makes a tall, slender pyramid or spire. 

 (See also vars. aurea pendula and heterophylla pendula.) 



Var. SCOLOPENDRIFOLIA. Leaflets narrow, often curled and deformed, 

 narrower than in the type. Not free-growing. 



Var. TRANSONI. Leaves yellow. 



Var. VERTICILLATA. Leaves occasionally in threes instead of the usual 

 pairs, but in this, as in some other abnormal forms of common ash, the leaves 

 are frequently alternate. 



F. FLORIBUNDA, Wallich. HIMALAYAN ASH. 



In 1876 the late Sir George King, then of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, 

 sent seeds of this fine ash to Kew. Of the trees raised one survives, which 

 was cut to the ground in the winter of 1880-1, but is now about 15 ft. high. 

 Although it withstood the frosts of February 1895 without injury, and is now 

 apparently perfectly hardy, its rate of growth with us is not such as to 

 recommend it for general cultivation, except in the milder counties. It is 

 one of the Ornus group, and in the north-western Himalaya, where it is native, 

 reaches 80 to 100 ft. in height. Its branches are without down, and its leaves 

 10 to 15 ins. long. Leaflets usually seven or nine, oblong (terminal one 

 obovate), tapered at both ends ; 3 to 6 ins. long, i to i\ ins. wide ; sharply 

 toothed, smooth above, downy beneath, chiefly on the midrib and veins. 

 Main-stalk grooved, stalk of leaflets |- to \ in. long. Flowers white, in large 

 terminal panicles. It resembles some of~the big-leaved forms of F. Ornus, 

 but the leaflets are normally much larger, more prominently ribbed beneath, 

 and longer pointed. I have not seen it in flower, but the blossoms appear in 

 panicles. Introduced first, Loudon says, in 1822, but killed in the winter of 

 1836-7. 



F. HOLOTRICHA, Koehne. 



A small tree, with the young branchlets, leaf-stalks, and both surfaces of the 

 leaves clothed with a dense soft down. Leaflets nine to thirteen on each leaf, 



