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ADJACENT TO HORTICULTURAL HALL, 67 
Forsythia. Low hardy shrubs from China and Japan, with bright-yellow, 
conspicuous flowers which appear in early spring before the leaves; flowers 
bell-shaped, 4-lobed, stamens 2, ovary with several seeds in each of the 2 
cells. ° 
Forsythia suspensa, Va//. Branches weak, needing support; ovate leaves 
thin, dull green. 

Forsythia viridissima, ? Shrub with erect, strong branches; leaves 
thickish, lanceolate, bright green. 
Fraxinus. Calyx small, or wanting entirely; petals 2 to 4, or even none; 
fruit I-seeded, with a wing 3¢ of an inch to I inch or more long; leaves simply 
compound. 
Fraxinus Americana, Zimneus. WHITE ASH. Petals none and calyx 
small; fruit round cylindrical at base, narrowly winged from the apex only; 
leaflets 5 to 9, oblong, pointed, pale or somewhat downy on the under surface; 
young shoots and leaf-stalks smooth. A large, valuable native tree, most 
common in low grounds. The Park has also varieties aucubefolia, with 
gold-spotted foliage, juglandifolia, and lutea. It still requires varieties 
* pannosa and * punctata, the former with hairy shoots and large sharp- 
pointed leaves, and the latter with yellow-spotted foliage. 

Fraxinus excelsior, Zimnzeus. ENGLISH or EUROPEAN ASH. Flowers 
some unisexual, others hermaphrodite; petals none and calyx small; leaves 
bright green, of 5 to 6 pairs of oblong or lance-shaped, toothed leaflets ; fruit 
flat and narrowly oblong. From Europe, where it attains a height of from 60 
to 80 feet. A tree of great value, and one also to which an infinite number 
of uses has been ascribed by the superstitions of the past. It has long been 
cultivated, and has produced a large number of varieties, among which the 
most important are—aurea, GOLDEN-BARKED; heterophylla; Jaspidea, 
with striped bark; atrovirens, with dark-green foliage; angustifolia, WiL- 
LowW-LEAVED ASH, with light-green foliage; monophylla, SINGLE-LEAVED 
AsH; pendula, with drooping branches and small leaves. The Park has the 
above varieties. It yet requires * myrtifolia, a small tree with small leaves, 
as well as other less important forms. 
Fraxinus Elonza Japonica is by some regarded as a form of F. excelsior. 
It comes from Japan, however, and has long, drooping branches and small, 
light-green leaves. 
Fraxinus Ornus, Zinmm@us. FLOWERING ASH. (Ornus Europea, Per- 
soon.) Tree 20 to 30 feet high, from Southern Europe; barely hardy here. 
The manna of commerce is derived from this tree. Some of the flowers are uni- 
sexual, others are hermaphrodite, with 2 or 4 small, greenish, fringe-like petals; 
leaves with § to g small lanceolate or oblong leaflets; winged fruit linear 
oblong. 
Fraxinus pubescens, Zaméert.. RED AsH. A rather small native tree, 
of no great value; flowers without petals, and the male and female flowers on 
different trees usually; fruit linear to oblong, seed-bearing part somewhat 2- 
edged; leaflets 7 to 9, pale, entire or nearly so; young shoots and leaf-stalks 
soft downy. 

