640 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. (Dons 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. 
124. F. exctlsior. 
Varieties. Theseare very numerous; we shall give first those which are allowed 
to be varieties by botanists, and afterwards indicate these which are treated 
by botanists as species, and which we have accordingly kept distinct, but 
which we are decidedly of opinion are nothing more than varieties. 
¥ F.e. 2 péndula Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. v. p. 475., Lodd. Cat. ed 
1836; Fréne Parasol, #r.; the plate in Arb. Brit. Ist. edit. vol. vi., 
and our fig. 1247, — Branches pendulous. Discovered, about 
1750, at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire ; and subsequently in a wood 
in Argyllshire. (See Gard. Mag., vol. xiv. p. 124.) 
4 F. ec. 3 aérea Willd. Enum. p. 1059. F. atrea Pers. Ench. ii. p 
604., Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836. — Bark of the trunk and branches yellow 
and dotted; and the leaflets sessile, lanceolate, unequally serrated, 
acuminated, cuneated at the base, and glabrous. It is conspicuous, 
