OLIVE FAMILY. Olcaceac> 



The sepals are slightly downy and the corollas are a bout- 

 three-quarters of an inch long, with pure-white petals, 

 sometimes lilac-tinged, yellow at base, with a ring of 

 maroon scallops and a dark purple "bill." The flowers are 

 deliciously fragrant, like Clove Pinks. This grows in the 

 south. 



A charming little plant, growing in wet, 

 Small Shooting- rich mounta j n meadows, with a smooth 

 Dodeccitheon reddish stem, about eight inches tall, 



paudfldrum bearing a bracted cluster of several delicate 



Pink flowers, and springing from a loose clump 



Spring, summer f smooth leaves. The flowers are about 



West 



three-quarters of an inch long, with bright 

 purplish-pink petals, with a ring of crimson, a ring of 

 yellow and a wavy line of red, where they begin to turn 

 back; the stamens with united filaments and long purplish- 

 brown anthers; the pistil white. 



OLIVE FAMILY. Oleaceae. 



A rather large family, widely distributed, including Olive, 

 Lilac, and Privet; trees and shrubs; leaves mostly opposite; 

 without stipules; flowers perfect or imperfect, with two 

 to four divisions, calyx usually small or lacking, corolla 

 with separate or united petals, sometimes lacking; stamens 

 two or four, on the corolla, ovary superior, two-celled, 

 with a short style or none; fruit a capsule, berry, stone- 

 fruit, or wing-fruit. 



There are many kinds of Fraxinus, almost all trees. 



An odd and beautiful shrub, growing on 



Flowering Ash, Brf h A { {{ {n th Qrand Canyon 

 Fringe-bush 

 Frdxinus about as large as a lilac bush, with smooth, 



macropetala bright-green leaves, some of the leaflets 



White obscurely toothed, and drooping plumes of 



Arizona fragrant white flowers. The calyx is very 



small, and the four petals are so long and 

 narrow that the effect of the cluster is of a bunch of white 

 fringe. The fruit is a flat winged-seed. 



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