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FLOWERING ASH. 
(Frene a Fleur, Fr.) 
Natural Order , Oleines. Linncean Classification , Diandria 
Mqnogynia. 
ORNUS. (Persoon.) 
Calyx 4-parted or 4-toothed. Corolla 2 to 4 parted, the segments usually 
elongated. Stamens exserted. Stigma emarginate. Samara 1 -celled, 
1 -seeded, winged. 
Trees, natives of Europe Asia and Western America, with opposite 
unequally pinnated leaves, and terminal or axillary panicles of flowers, 
scarcely distinguishable from the Ash but by the presence of a corolla. 
CALIFORNIAN FLOWERING ASH. 
ORNUS dipetala, foliis Z-jugis , foliolis cuneato-ovatis serratis obtusis 
glabris , paniculis axittaribus , corolla dipetala , anthera elongata , fila- 
mentis brevibus. 
Ornus dipetala. Hooker and Arnott , in Botan. Beech, tab. 87. 
Fraxinus ( ornus ) dipetala ; foliis Z-jugis , foliolis croalibus obtusis acute 
serratis glabris basi cuneatis, inferioribus in petiolulum longiusculum 
attenuatis , superioribus duobus sessilibus , supremo longe petiolulata , 
