( 5 * ) 
and diftinguiftied character. Dr. Benjamin Franklin. 
The trivial name is added from the river, where 
alone it has been obferved to grow naturally. It 
delights in a loofe, fandy and moift foil. 
FRAXINUS, 
The ASH- TREE. 
Glafs 23. Order 2. Polygamia Dioecia. 
HPHE Flowers ar q Hermaphrodite and Female on different trees. 
*The Hermaphrodite : 
The Calyx none; or an Empalement of one leaf, four-parted, 
ereft, acute, and fmalh 
The Corolla none; or of four petals, linear, long, acute, and 
eredt. 
The Filaments are two, ereft and fhorter than the corolla. The 
Anther ce are eredt, oblong, and four furrowed. 
The Germen is ovate and compreffed. The Style cylindrical 
and eredt. The Sfzgma thickiffi and two cleft. 
The Seed-vejjel none befides the cruft of the feed. 
The Seed is lanced, compreffed-membranaceous and of one 
cell. 
* The Female are the fame in every part except wanting the 
ftamina. 
The Species are , 
1. Fraxinus americana. Carolinian or Red 
AJh. 
This grows to the height of twenty or thirty feet, 
dividing into feveral branches, the fmall ones of 
which are generally oppofite; the leaves are com* 
pofed of three or four pair of lobes, terminated by 
an odd one, which are egg-fiiaped and pointed, their 
upper, furface. of a light green colour, their under 
covered with fhort white downy hairs. The feeds 
are broad and of a light colour. 
2. 'Fraxinus 
