644 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Engravings, Willd. Berl. Baumz., p. 155. t. 2. f. 2.; the plate in Arb. Brit., Ist. edit., vol. vi. s 
and our fig. 1251. 
1251. F. parvifolia. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaflets 5—7 pairs, sessile, roundish ovate and oblong, ate 
tenuated at the base ; quite entire at the base, but sharply serrated at the 
apex, mucronate. Flowers naked. Branches purplish, trigonal at the top. 
(Don’s Mill.) A deciduous tree. Levant. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. Introd. 
1822. Flowers greenish yellow; April and May. Samara smaller than 
those of the common ash ; ripe in October. Hort. Soc. Garden, and Lod. 
# 5, F.(p.) arce’ntea Lois, The silvery-leaved Ash. 
Identification. Lois. F\. Gall., 697.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 54. 
Engraving. Our fig. 2098. in p. 1108. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves with usually 3 pairs of rather coriaceous, elliptic, 
ovate, shortly cuspidate, bluntly toothed leaflets, on short petiolules. Leaves 
silvery grey. (Don’s Mill.) A deciduous tree. ; lj 
Corsica, in the fissures of rocks. Height 30 ft. N aol 
to 40 ft. Introduced in 1835. Flowers greenish SQy(7 Shy 
yellow; April and May. Gt. 
This variety must not be confounded with F. 
ce. foliis argénteis, which is merely a variegation | 
of the common ash (J’. excélsior). 
+ 6. F. (v.) oxyca’rpa Willd. The sharp-frnited 
Ash, 
Identification. Willd. Sp., 4. p. 1100.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 55. 
Synonymes. F. oxyphylla Bieb. Fi. Taur. 2. p. 450. ; F. O’rnus 
Pall. Itin. Taur. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1252. from a living specimen. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaflets 2—3 pairs, almost 
sessile, lanceolate, acuminated, serrated, gla- 
brous. Flowers naked. Samara lanceolate, 
attenuated at both ends, mucronate. Branchlets 
green, with white dots. Buds brown. (Don’s 
1252. F. (p.) oxycarpa. 
