Also 7–8 fraxinel(l. [mod.Lat., dim. of L. fraxinus ash. Cf. F. fraxinelle.] A name for cultivated species of dittany, esp. Dictamnus Fraxinella.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 205. May … Flowers in Prime or yet lasting … Digitalis, Fraxinella.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 100. Solomons Seal, of some called St. Iohns Seal, or St. Maries Seal, or Fraxinell, or the Seal of Heaven, is a long stalk bowing towards the top, set with single leaves one above another.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 41. White Dittany or Fraxinella.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 122. Old-fashioned durable flowers, jessamine, honeysuckle, and the high-scented fraxinella.
attrib. 1892. Symonds, in Pall Mall G., 15 Aug., 3/1. Amidst the fraxinella bushes and the chestnut copse.
