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Trqe n. li^RAXlNK^> Fruit a samara. Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Leaves 

 pinnate. 



3. FRAXINUS. Flowers in lateral and tenrinal panicles. Calyx minute or rarely want- 



ing. Trees. 



Tribe IIL FORKSTIKREliG. Fruit a drupe. Flowers dioecious or perfect, apeta- 

 lous. Leaves simple. 



4. FOiiESTlEUA. Flowers mostly dioecious, from scaly axillary buds. Shrubs. 



1. OLEA, Toum. Olive. 



■ Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla short-salver-form, 4-lobed. Stamens 2. Style 

 short. Stigma globose or 2-lobed. Drupe mostly 1-seeded, oily. — Trees or 

 shrubs, with opposite coriaceous entire leaves, and small white fragrant flowers, 

 in axillary racemes or panicles. 



1. O. Americana, L. Smooth; leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, nar- 

 rowed into a petiole ; racemes compound, shorter than the leaves ; flowers 

 polygamo-dioecious, bracted ; drupe ovoid, dark purple. — Light soil, near the 

 coast, Florida to North Carolina. March and April. — A shrub or small tree, 

 with whitish bark and evergreen leaves. Drupe as large as a pea, bitter and 

 astringent. 



2. CHIONANTHTJS, L. Fringe-Tree. 



Calyx small, 4-cleft. Corolla wheel-shaped, 4-parted, with long and linear 

 lobes. Stamens 2-4, included. Style very short : stigma notched. Drupe 

 fleshy, 1-seeded. — A shrub, with oblong entire deciduous leaves, and delicate 

 white flowers in slender axillary panicles, appearing with the leaves. 



1. C. Virginica, L. — Light soil, Florida, and northward. April and 

 May. — Shmb 6° -10° high. Leaves smooth or pubescent, narrowed into a 

 petiole. Panicles longer than the leaves, leafy-bracted. Flowers on slender 

 drooping pedicels. CoroUa-lobes linear, 1' long. Drupe ovoid, purple. 



3. PRAXINirS, Toum. Ash. 



Flowers dioecious and (in our species) apetalous. Calyx 4-lobed or toothed, 

 minute, sometimes wanting. Stamens 2 - 4 : filaments shorter than the large 

 anthers. Stigma 2-cleft. Fruit (samara) dry, winged above, 1 -2-seeded. Co- 

 tyledons elliptical. Eadicle slender. — Trees. Leaves petioled, odd-pinnate, 

 deciduous. 



* FttuU naked and terete or barely margined and 2-edged at the base, winged above : 

 leaflets 7-9, stalked. 



1. F. Americana, L. (White Ash.) Branches and petioles smooth; 

 leaflets ovate-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, entire, or slightly serrate 

 above, smooth on the upper surface, pubescent or glaucous beneath ; fruit terete, 

 striate, dilated at the apex into a cuneate-Iinear or lanceolate obtuse or notched 

 "wing. (F. acuminata and F. juglandifolia, Hiam ) — Swamps, Florida to Mis- 



