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FRAXINUS ORNUS. 
Manna, or Flowering Ash. 
Class Poly G AMI A. — Order Dicecia. 
Nat. Old. Sepiari^, Lin7i. Jasmines, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Hermaph. Cahjx 0, or four-parted. Corolla 0, 
or four-petaled. Stamens 2. Pistil I, Capsule 1-seeded, 
lanceolate. 
Female. Pistil 1, lanceolate. 
Spec. Char. Leaflets elliptic, oblong, pointed, bluntly 
serrated. Flowers with a corolla. 
The Manna, or flowering ash, was first introduced into England, 
about the year 1730, f and now adorns many of the gardens of this 
country ; it greatly resembles our common ash, but does not rise so 
high. This species of ash is a native of the southern parts of 
Europe, and grows abundantly in Sicily, Calabria, and Greece ; it 
appears to thrive best in high rocky situations, being found to grow 
very luxuriantly on the lofty mountains of Garganus, X and many of 
the high rocUy mountains in Greece. 
This tree is very much branched, ami covered with a smooth bark 
of a greyish colour ; the leaves (which are produced on the young 
shoots) are somewhat smaller than those of our common ash ; they 
stand upon long channelled footstalks, arc pinnate, opposite, and 
consist of several pair of pinnae, with a terminal one ; the pinnae are 
placed opposite, of an oval or oblong, pointed at both ends, serrated, 
veined, and of a bright green colour ; the flowers are produced in 
branched spikes, or panicles, at the extremities of the branches ; the 
calyx is four-parted, the 'segments of which are ovate ; the corolla is 
of a pale yellowish colour, and consists of four oblong, linear pointed 
petals ; the two filaments are spreading, and support long furrowed 
* Fig. a. a flower magnified, b. The capsules, 
t Hort. Cant. 
t Vide Phil. Trans, vol. Ix, p. 234. 
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