OLIVE FAMILY. Oleaceae. 



The sepals are slightly downy and the corollas are abou 

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

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

 maroon scallops and a dark purple " bill." The flowers ar* 

 deliciously fragrant, like Clove Pinks. This grows in th< 

 south. 



A charming little plant, growing in wet 

 Small Shooting- rich mountain mea dows, with a smootl 



reddish stem, about eight inches tall 



pauciflbrum bearing a bracted cluster of several delicat< 



flowers, and springing from a loose clumj 

 mmer of smooth leaves. The flowers are abou 

 three-quarters of an inch long, with brigh' 

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

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

 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 tw( 

 to four divisions, calyx usually small or lacking, corolb 

 with separate or united petals, sometimes lacking ; stamen; 

 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 01 

 Flowering Ash, Brf ht A , tfail {n the Gmnd Canyon 



Fringe- bush 



Fraxinus about as large as a lilac bush, with smooth 



macropetala bright-green leaves, some of the leaflet 



White obscurely toothed, and drooping plumes o 



fragrant white flowers. The calyx is ver 

 small, and the four petals are so long am 



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



fringe. The fruit is a flat winged-seed. 



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