CALIFORNIAN FLOWERING ASH. 
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paniculis multifloris longitudine fere foliorum ac infra folio ortis, 
fetalis 2 obovato-oblongis obtusis unguiculatis . Hook, in Bot. Beechy, 
Suppl. p. 362. 
Specimens of this curious tree were collected (probably) 
by Douglas in the forests of Upper California. The flowers 
appear less showy but more curious than those of the com- 
mon Flowering Ash, {Ornus Europcea .) The leaflets appear 
to be small and distant from each other, smooth, of an 
elliptic ovate figure, with small and distinct sharp serra- 
tures. The flowers are small and come out in ramified 
clusters from the axills of the leaves ; they have a distinct 
4-toothed calyx, and 2 oblong, obtuse spreading petals 
about the length of the stamens. The stamens do not 
appear to be exserted as in the European ornus ; the 
anthers are also very large and long, and the filaments so 
short as not to appear beyond the calyx. The germ is 
ovate, and the stigma merely notched. 
Of this curious plant we have seen nothing more than 
the plate and specific character as given above. The 
author remarks, that it is allied to F. Schiedianus of Schlec- 
tendal, described in the Linnsea. vol. 6, p. 391, a Mexican 
plant, but the petals of that species have not yet been 
observed. 
Plate CL 
A branch of the natural size, a . The flower magnified, b. The germ 
also magnified. 
The Ornus Americana of Pursh. Flor. Bor. Amer. vol. 
1, p. 8, is given on the authority of Persoon, who merely 
notices it as a variety of the European Ornus, and 
cautiously places an interrogation after americana ? giving 
at the same time no locality. Pursh, however, adds, “ In 
