SECTION XIII. 



Note I. Page 3] 0. 



The Ash, according to the arrangement of Linnaeus, is ranked under 

 the genus Polygamia dioecia. The common Ash, or Fraxinus excel- 

 sior^ has small- sized leaves, which are serrated, with flowers having no 

 petals {Foliolis serratis, floribus apetalis.^ — Linn. Spec. Plant. 1509. 

 Fraxinus excelsior, foliolis serratis^ fiorihus calyce corroldque desti- 

 tutis. — Smith, Flor. Brit. t. ii. p. 13. Of the American species of 

 this tree, there is one which seems particularly hardy and valuable, 

 I mean the Fraxinus americana, or White Ash, as described by 

 Willdenow and Michaux. It endures the severest colds of Canada and 

 Nova Scotia, and unites all the properties for which the Common 

 Ash is so remarkable — strength, toughness, and durability. That it 

 would transplant well, I have little doubt ; but I cannot speak from 

 my own experience. 



I entirely agree w^ith the ingenious Dr Yule, in the opinion that 

 the Ash family is, as yet, but imperfectly known to naturalists ; and 

 that the seemingly valuable properties of the white, the red, and the 

 blue American species well deserve to be investigated. — See his inter- 

 esting Report of a Committee of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, 

 of experiments on the naturalisation of useful and ornamental plants 

 in Scotland, (as already alluded to, pp. 462-3, under the head Oak.) 

 Horticul. Misc. vol. ii. pp. 395-397. 



Note II. Page 313. 



The heritable or territorial jurisdictions which subsisted in Scotland 

 from remote times, and were not entirely abolished till after the rebel- 

 lion in 1745, conferred very extensive powers on the lesser as well as 

 the greater barons. In some cases, they extended to life and death, 

 and in others to minor punishments, such as that of "the Juggs" 

 alluded to in the text. 



This term is obviously derived from the Latin jugum, and is there- 

 fore of Saxon, not Celtic origin. It seems surprising that Dr Jamie- 



