48 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



I. Armeria, Willd. 



Leaves all radical, narrow ; flowers small, on naked 

 scapes, collected into dense umbellate cymes, surrounded 

 by an involucre of bracts ; calyx funnel-shaped. 



A. alpina, Willd.; leaves linear, acute; probably an 

 alpine form of A . vulgaris, Willd. {Statice A rmeria, L.), 

 the Thrift or Sea- Pink ; high elevations, rare ; Furka, 

 Styria, Carpathians, Dauphiny, Pyrenees. A.plantaginea, 

 Willd. ; leaves somewhat broader, outer involucral bracts 

 acuminate ; Valais (very rare), Dauphiny, Pyrenees. 



Order LL— OLEACEiE. 



Flowers small, unisexual or bisexual ; calyx 4-lobed or 

 o ; petals 4 or o ; stamens 2 ; leaves simple, or pinnate 

 with an odd leaflet, always opposite; fruit a berry or 

 samara. A small order of trees or shrubs; mostly 

 Northern. Not alpine. 



I. LiGUSTRUM, Tourn. 



Flowers small, white, in terminal cymes ; calyx small, 

 4-toothed ; corolla 4-Iobed ; fruit a 2-celled berry. Shrubs 

 with opposite entire usually evergreen leaves. 



L. vulgare, L., Privet; thickets and hedges, common. 



2. Fraxinus, Tourn. 



Flowers dioecious; calyx and corolla often o; fruit a 

 broadly winged samara. Trees with opposite pinnate 

 leaves. 



F. excelsior, L., Ash ; common. F. Omus, L., the 



