OLIVE FAMILY, Oleaceae. 
The sepals are slightly downy and the corollas are about 
three-quarters of an inch long, with pure-white petals, 
sometimes lilac-tinged, yellow at base, with a ring of 
maroon scallops and a dark purple ‘‘bill.’”” The flowers are 
deliciously fragrant, like Clove Pinks. This grows in the 
south. 
A charming little plant, growing in wet, 
Small Shooting- +i) mountain meadows, with a smooth 
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Dodecithean reddish stem, about eight inches tall, 
pauciflorum bearing a bracted cluster of several delicate 
Pink flowers, and springing from a loose clump 
Spring, summer 
of smooth leaves. The flowers are about 
_ West 
three-quarters of an inch long, with bright 
purplish-pink petals, with a ring of crimson, a ring of 
yellow and a wavy line of red, where they begin to turn 
back; the stamens with united filaments and long purplish- 
brown anthers; the pistil white. 
OLIVE FAMILY. Oleaceae. 
A rather large family, widely distributed, including Olive, 
Lilac, and Privet; trees and shrubs; leaves mostly opposite; 
without stipules; flowers perfect or imperfect, with two 
to four divisions, calyx usually small or lacking, corolla 
with separate or united petals, sometimes lacking; stamens 
two or four, on the corolla, ovary superior, two-celled, 
with a short style or none; fruit a capsule, berry, stone- 
fruit, or wing-fruit. 
There are many kinds of Fraxinus, almost all trees. 
An odd and beautiful shrub, growing on 
Flowering Ash, = Bright Angel trail, in the Grand Canyon, 
Fringe-bush , : 
Fré ae s about as large as a lilac bush, with smooth, 
macropétala bright-green leaves, some of the leaflets 
ee obscurely toothed, and drooping plumes of 
pring 1“: : 
cise fragrant white flowers. The calyx is very 
small, and the four petals are so long and 
narrow that the effect of the cluster is of a bunch of white 
fringe. The fruit is a flat winged-seed. 
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