FRA 
FRAUENWALD, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Benscberg. 5 ; feur iiles N. E. of Schleufingen 
HOFEN, a town of Bavaria ; three miles S. of 
andfhut 
: FRAU INBE RG, a nhs of the duchy of Stivia 5 : feven 
qniles.E. S. E. of Oberv 
FRAUREUTH, a oa of Germany, in the county 
of. Reus; fix miles N. E. of Greitz. 
- EBRAUS Lecis; ifa perfon, having no manner of title to 
gee procure an affidavit of the. fervice ea a declaration 
therein to his own ufe, y be punifhe 
caufe he ufed the a or the law with a ieinow pur- 
in Hed ¢ 
FR DT, or Frauenstapt, in Ge soprnphy, a 
town of ne aries ‘of Warfaw, on the frontiers of Silefia, . 
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- It contains three proteftant chur 
chiefly inhabited by Germans, who trade principally i in cattle 
and wool; 170 miles N. N. W. of Breflawe 
FRAXINELLA, in-Botany, the diminutive of Fraxi- 
nus, a little ath, alluding to the form of the leaves. See 
sas ale 
_FRAXINELLA, in the Materia Medica, j is the Dice 
albus, eos fee. The a which i is the only part dire@ted 
for medicinal ufe, has, w : » a moderately ftrong, 
not peg eae {mell ; ae . tafte difcovers a pretty 
urable bitter a which is taken up by 
iri 
§ enti 3 the 
uch = ‘quantity ae a fpiritu- 
-eus, and prorerbachiy wea tafe. root was 
formerly ufed as a ftomachic, tonic, an a and 
was-fuppofed to be an aie wae s- medicine in removin 
uterine obftructions, and deftroy: oie worms ; but it funk 
almoft entirely into difufe, till Baron Stoerck brought it 
into notice by publifhing feveral cafes of its fuccefs in tertian 
intermittents, worms, (lumbrici,) and menftrual fuppreffions ; 
in which cafes he employed the powdered root to the extent 
is fai as of | 
feryice to diloxotic see Ne vserthelele ee e 
ditamnus is a medicine of confiderable power, we-may ftill 
fay with Haller, «« Nondum autem vero pro dignitate ex- 
ploratus eft.”? Woodville, Med. Bot 
FRAXINUS, in Botany, the Ath; fo called by t pa 
‘Romans, whether from @pesox, to hedge in or enclofe, o: 
from fragofus, rough and rocky ; the former alluding to a 
poffible, though not general, ufe, and the latter to its oc- 
cafional, though not.ufual, places of growth-; we really 
cannot decide, but we have nothing better to offers Linn. 
en. 550. . Schreb. 736. a . Brit. 12.7 “Mill. 
Did. v.2. oe Hort: Kew 
We Ve 36 4g ie “Tous 
ne te.49s ‘Clafs al boar Dia ee Sono, 
343. Geer a. 
‘Linn _ Nat Ord. sere ‘Lin. 
t. 
‘( Polyzamia "Dios: 
Jafrninee, J uff, 
ane acute. Cor. 
oblong, with-four furrows. Pf 
Germen aneriots ovate;. comprefied ; ftyle_ aaa ex 
» 
‘leafy at the top, comprefied. 
FRA 
right ; fligma _ thickifh,’ cloven. Capfule ovates 
oblong, leafy in the upper part, of ie rele one‘of which 
is generally abortivé. Seeds folitary, ae aticeolate, 
comprefied, ners with dame ties ara an 
“ff Ch. yx none, or deep is ur-cleft.° Corolla 
none, or deeply fo deze ft.- Cae i of two cells, 
Seeds islitary, pendulous. 
Some flowers have ro ftam mens, ie no ftigma 
ermen and no ftyle, an 
{till more with a perfec piltil, be a amens, — 
OF lle Manna, or oe Afb. Cam. Sp. PI. 
m. Fl. Grec. Sibth. v. 1. 4.-t..4. Woody. Med. 
illd. Baum, i Ehrh. Ph Off. 270. Arb 
eaflets elliptic-oblong, pointed, bluntly 
Flowers ihe ccrolla.—Nativ 
. Haw 
is collected at prefen t in the peninfula of Mina only. The 
tree .is fometimes feen in ov 
ica) 
a) 
o> 
o 
oO 
agree- 
or three pair, with 
able Epos ~The Laves confilt of two 
ano e, of oppofite, flightly. ftalked, leaflets, various in 
Breadth, Gos light green ; their ferratures {mall, rounded, 
sea aa dons e. Panicles about the ends of the branches, 
axillary, much-compounded, many-flowered. Capfules {maller 
than thofe of the common afh, feldom ripened in England. 
Mi i 
; 2. F. yest Loar Round-leaved Ath. Diét. ed. 
n. 2. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3- 445. Lam 6. 
Willd. Baumz. 116. ~Leafets coundih. i 
fharply ferrated. Flow 
S ‘vith aco 
Levant. Manna feems to be colleéted aed this indiffer ently 
v preceding. It is wn the-fharp fpreading 
ferratures of the leaflets. is 
variable circumftance 
tranflation, and in- 
dee rong tranfcript, of the words floribus corollatis in 
Linneus. Plukenet’s F. alepenfis, Phyt. t. 182. f. 4, feems 
mantfeftly this {pecies, Lamarck makes it; though 
Willdenow refers it to parvi ifolia, N. Q. 
3. F. americana. eon pe - Sp. Pl. x ise 
Willd. ee ict. 
Lin 
: ios m. 
547. )—Leaflets ftalked, cine oa flightly fenrated 
glaucous beneath, - fules cylindrical at the bafe.— 
art where the feed is Ce 
jagged permanent calyx’is vifible ori the fruit, which leads 
us to ee : has alfo a corolla,’ but of th 
accou ie 
_Walnut-teaved A fh. Tian, Dia 
- 117.—“ Leaflets italked, ovate, 
‘e cone with weal veins beneath: 
Flowers varh a a od —Native of 
Nor 
a F. inn fla. 
¥. 2. 548. 
opaque, t yee ‘ 
branches Gio 
