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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



The flowers are produced in loose spikes, from the sides of the branches. 

 On some there are only female flowers ; on others, hermaphrodite ones ; 

 and on others, male ones ; while on some trees the flowers are found in 

 two of these states, or in all of them. (Doit's Mill.) A large deciduous 

 tree. Europe. Height 30 ft. to 80 ft. Flowers greenish yellow ; March 

 and April, before the leaves appear. Samara brown ; ripe in October. 

 Decaying leaves brown and yellow. Naked young wood ash grey. 



F. exctlsior. 



Varieties. These are very numerous ; we shall give first those which are allowC' 

 to be varieties by botanists, and afterwards indicate those which are treatC| 

 by botanists as species, and which we have accordingly kept distinct, bm 

 which we are decidedly of opinion are nothing more than varieties. 



3^ F. (?. 2 pendula Ait. Hort. Kew. ed, 2. vol. v. p. 475., Lodd. Cat. ct 

 1836; Frene Parasol, Fr. ; the plate in Arb. Brit. 1st. edit. vol. vij 

 and our ^g. 1247. Branches pendulous. Discovered, aboc 

 1730, at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire ; and subsequently in a woe 

 in Argyllshire. (See Gard. Mag., vol. xiv. p. 124.) .. | 



X F. e. 3 aurea Willd. Enum. p. 1059. F. aurea Pers. Ench. ii. | 

 604., Lodd. CiU. cd. 1836. Bark of the trunk and branches yellci 

 and dotted ; and the leaflets sessile, lanceolate, unequally serrate 

 acuminated, cuneated at the base, and glabrous. It is conspictioij 



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