DIANDHIA. MONOGYNIA. Fraxinvs. 
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twice as long as the scale, with pale-yellow anthers. Germen on a hairy 
stalk as long as the scale. Style very short. 
Withered-pointed Sallow. S. sphacelata. Sm. Willd. S. lanata. 
Lightf. very distinct from S. lanata. Linn. S. caprcea. var. Hoffm. At 
Finlarig, near the head of Loch Tay. Rev. Dr. Stuart: in FI. Scot. 
April, May. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
(52. S. Smithia'na. Leaves lanceolate, pointed, slightly wavy, mi¬ 
nutely toothed; soft, and scarce visibly downy above; whitish 
and silky beneath: stipulas crescent-shaped, minute: catkins 
ovate: germen stalked: style shorter than the linear, deeply 
divided stigmas. 
Branches erect, wand-like, reddish, brittle and unfit for basket work. 
Stipulas very small, at first lanceolate, a little toothed, hairy; subse¬ 
quently crescent-shaped. Catkins small. 
Silky-leaved Osier. S. Smithiana. Willd. S. mollissima. FI. Brit, but 
not the German plant of Ehrhart; nor the true Velvet Osier , which is 
probably S. holosericea of Willd. and not British. About Bury, chiefly 
amongst osiers. Mr. Crowe. Near Pennard Castle, Glamorganshire. 
Mr. D. Turner. S. April, May. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
FRAXINUS.* Bloss. none, or deeply quadrifid; fertile and 
complete flowers. Fist. one. Caps, two-celled, two- 
seeded, (or with rudiments of two-seeds: foliaceous 
at the extremity, compressed; one-cell barren. Seed 
spear-shaped, pendulous : some flowers without stamens 
E.) 
F. excel'sior. Leafits serrated: flowers without petals. 
FI. Dan. 969—( E. Bot. 1692. E.) — Hunt. Evel. p. 150; i . p. 145, Ed. i.—- 
Blackw. 328— Cam. Epit. 64— Park. 1419. 1— Gars. 97 and 277— Dod. 
833 —Lob. Obs. 545. 1; Jc.ii. 197. 2—Ger. Em. U72—Matth. 135— J.B. 
i. b. 174, diseased excrescences, and no leaves. 
(A tall and graceful forest tree, with smooth, greenish, grey bark; the 
extremities of the lower pendent branches of full grown plants remark¬ 
ably curving upwards. Buds large, black. Flowers minute, brown, 
preceding the leaves. Seed covered with rusty powder. E.) Some trees 
producing Jlowers with stamens and pistils, and others only Jlowers with 
pistils ; but it often happens that the former have some with only pistils 
intermixed; and the reverse. Buds, the lateral ones producing bunches, 
the terminal one leaves. Linn. Leaves opposite, on leaf-stalks. Leafits 
sessile, four or five pair, with an odd one. 
Ash-tree. (Welsh: Onen, Onwydden. Gaelic: Uinsionn. Irish: Cran 
Fuinfeog. E.) Woods and hedge-rows. T. March—May.t 
This is clearly a distinct variety, and my friend Dr. Bostock has supplied 
me with specimens of it from a plantation near Liverpool. 
* ($ 13 oc§w, to enclose or hedge in : so called by the Romans, and probably alluding to 
some usage with which w 7 e are unacquainted. E.) 
■f (The Ash tree has been styled by Gilpin, and not inappropriately, the Venus of the 
forest} 
“• Fraxinus in sylvis pulcherrima 
