Order II. 
POLYGAMIA DICECIA. 
DICE CI A. 
14319 Fronds palmate with spiny stalks, Spathe simple 
14320 Fronds palmate with spiny stalks, Caudex creeping 
14321 Stem creeping. Stalks with very long entangled prickles, Fronds palmate 
14322 Fronds palmate with unarmed stalks, Spathes double, Stem arboreous 
14323 Branches spiny, Spines thick triple, Lreaflets linear oblong. Pods many- seeded 
14324 Spines short thick triple. Leaflets oblong blunt, Pods oblong short 
14325 Branches somewhat spiny. Leaflets ovate-oblong. Pods 1-seeded 
14326 Trunks spiny. Spines branched. Leaflets oval-oblong 
14327 Spines robust alternately branched, Leaflets elliptical smooth 
14328 The only species 
14329 Leaflets stalked oblong shining acuminate entire glaucous beneath. Buds yellowish 
14330 Leaflets quite entire with long points glaucous beneath. Buds tawny 
14331 Leafl. stalked ovate opaque serrated glaucous ben. Axils of veins downy. Branches smooth, Buds fuscous 
14332 Leaflets stalked lanceolate serrulate shining sm.ooth, Branches smooth. Buds fuscous 
14333 Leaflets stalked elliptical ovate serrated beneath with the petioles and branchlets downy 
14334 Lvs. of 3 pair shining above vill. with down ben. Leafl. stalk, ov. ent. taper, toward each end, Buds tawny 
14335 Leaflets oblong lanceolate subserrated, Wing of fruit stalked cuneate emarginate, Buds fuscous 
14336 Leaflets subsessile lane, ellipt. serrated downy beneath. Branches square with winged angles, Buds grey 
14337 Leaflets subsessile serrated outwardly and fruit lanceolate elliptical 
14338 Leaflets ovate oblong unequally serrate about 11 smooth stalked, Branchlets smooth, Buds fuscous 
14339 Leaves of 5 pair smooth above,' Veins above hairy. Leaflets oblong subsessile unequally toothed 
14340 Lvs. of 6 pair somew. downy ben. Leafl. on long stalks oblong acute sinuated. Petioles somev/. powdery 
14341 Lvs. of 3 pair coriac. ahttledowny ben. Leafl. obi. acute somewhat toothed, Veins and petioles ben. pink 
14342 Lvs. of 3 pair shining above ben. with the petioles downy, Leaflets obi. lane, acuminate, Branches hirsute 
14343 Lvs. of 3 pair shining above with veins downy ben. Leaflets oblong acute finely serrated, Branches green 
14344 Lvs. of 3 pair smooth. Veins ben. rather hairy, Leaflets lane, unequally toothed, Buds lin. cinereous hairy 
14345 Lvs. of 3 pair beneath and petioles hirsute, Leafl. lane, unequally and finely toothed acum. Branches grey 
14.346 Lvs. of 3 pair smooth. Veins ben. rather hairy, Leafl. obi. acute toothed. Branches cinereous hairy at base 
14347 Leaves of 3 pair downy beneath. Leaflets ovate acute equally toothed, Buds tawny 
14348 Lvs. of 3 pair hairy ben. Leaflets oblong mucronate somew. toothed, Branches brownish-black. Buds tawny 
14349 Leaves of 3 pair smooth. Leaflets oblong acute subsinuate toothed. Branches blackish 
14350 Lvs. of 3 pair smooth above. Veins beneath villous, Leafl. obi. mucron. equally toothed. Branches fuscous 
14351 Leaves of 2 pair with rufous hairs beneath. Leaflets lanceolate acuminate cuspidate unequally toothed 
143.52 Leaves of 3 pair smooth. Leaflets subsessile ovate lanceolate toothed. Branches yellow 
14353 Leaflets somewhat stalked lanceolate acuminate serrated smooth cuneate at base. Branches flat smooth 
14354 Leafl. somewhat stalked lanceolate acuminate serrate smooth, Branches round warted 
14355 Leaves simple and compound tooth-serrated, Buds black 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
of with the swine. The tree is very common in the south of Spain, and the seeds or beans, as they were there 
called, often formed the principal food of the British cavalry horses during the war of 1811 and 1812. In our 
greenhouses the plant seldom flowers, but it grows very well in loam and peat, and ripened cuttings root in 
sand under a hand-glass. 
2157. Fraxinus. The origin of this word is far from certain. Linnseus says, it has been taken from the 
Greek <p^cc^i;, a separation, in allusion to the facility of splitting its wood. De Theis remarks, that M. A. 
Bureau de la Malle has proved, in a learned dissertation published in 1804, that the Fraxinus of the Latins 
and the Melia of the Greeks are our Ornus europaeus, while the Ornus of the Latins and the Boumelia of the 
Greeks are, in fact, our Fraxinus excelsior, or common ash. Le Frene, Fr., Esc//e, Ger., and Frassino, Ital. 
The English name is from the Celtic t^sc, a pike. F. excelsior is one of the most useful of our native timber 
trees. It is peculiarly adapted for implements of husbandry, and the coachmaker and wheeler ; it makes 
excellent fuel, w ith very little smoke ; good hop-poles and hoops, excellent handles for tools, and very good 
walking-sticks. Its period of leafing is very late, being seldom earlier than the last week of April, and not 
unfrequently about the middle of May : the leaves have been used to adulterate tea ; they are bitter, and said 
to communicate a rank taste to the milk and butter of cows which eat them. The roots spread to a great 
extent, and lie very near the surface ; and these, together with the shade of the head, are found very injurious 
to hedges and pastures. The variety of this species, F. pendula, was first discovered in a field at Gamblingay, 
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