76 OLEACE^E. Fraxinus. 



cent beneath : fruit linear-oblong or cuneate-oblong (one or two inches long, 4 to 7 lines 

 wide), not stipitate and oftener not narrowed at base, lightly several-nerved on both faces, 

 somewhat twisted when mature ; the minute calyx at length deciduous or obsolete. 

 Fl. ii. 225; Michx. f. Sylv. t. 123. Dry rich woods, Michigan to Tennessee. 



1 H Lateral leaflets sessile : common petiole angled : anthers short-oblong. 



= Calyx small, persistent. 



F. Oregana, Nutt. Tree of middle or ample size, with wood like that of White Ash, 

 the foliage and shoots villous-pubtscent, at least when young : leaflets 5 to 7, lanceolate- 

 oblong to oval, entire or nearly so (2 to 4 inches long), veiny, the upper surface soon 

 glabrous : fruit with nearly clavate and slightly compressed body, the margined edges gradu- 

 ally widened upwards into the longer oblanceolate wing (of an inch or less in length). 

 Sylv. iii. 59, t. 99 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 472. F. pulx-itcciis, var., Hook. Fl. ii. 51. F. latifolia, 

 Benth. Sulph. 33. Along streams, Washington Terr., near the coast, to California. 

 = = Calyx wanting : the flowers wholly naked. 



F. sambucifolia, Lam. (BLACK ASH.) Small or middle-sized tree, with very tough 

 and fissile wood ; glabrous, except bearded hairs along the midribs beneath : leaflets 7 to 

 11, green and of similar hue both sides, oblong-lanceolate from a roundish base, gradually 

 acuminate, finely and acutely serrate (3 to 5 inches long), the pinnate primary veins of 

 numerous pairs : fruit lanceolate-oblong or linear-oblong, flat throughout, finely nervose, 

 the acutely margined body of the same breadth as the wing. Diet. ii. 549; Muhl. 1. c. ; 

 Michx. f. Sylv. t. 122 ; Emerson, Rep. Trees, ed. 2, ii. 381, t. 13. F. niijra, Marsh. Arbust. 

 61. Swamps and wet banks, Nova Scotia to Wisconsin, the mountains of Virginia and 

 Kentucky. Bruised foliage exhales the odor of Elder. Remarkable for the total absence 

 of calyx. 



2. FORESTIERA, Poir. (M. Forestier, a French physician.) Shrubs 

 (North American and W. Indian) ; with opposite simple leaves, inconspicuous 

 flowers, in early spring, from inibricated-scaly axillary buds, and small dark-colored 

 drupes ; the putamen thin. Fascicles or panicles very short, few-flowered ; the 

 staminate sessile and in a sessile globular scaly glomerule : the bracts or bud-scales 

 deciduous. Branches minutely warty. Tulasne in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 265. 

 Adelia, Michx. Borya, Willd. Bigelovia, Smith. Piptolepis, Benth. 



* Leaves membranaceous and deciduous, not porulose. mostly minutely serrate : flowers from axils 

 of the preceding year. 



F. acuminata, Poir. Shrub somewhat spinescent, 5 to 10 feet high, glabrous through- 

 out : leaves ovate-lanceolate and ovate-oblong, conspicuously acuminate, slender-petioled, 

 !$ to 4 inches long : fertile flowers several in a panicle : calyx obsolete or caducous : drupe 

 (when forming fusiform acuminate, and somewhat arcuate) elongated-oblong. Diet. 

 Suppl. ii. 004 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 300, excl. var. Addla acnminata, Michx. Fl. ii. 

 225, t. 48. Borya acnminata, Willd. Spec. iv. 711. Foresticra ligustrina, Willd. ex char. & 

 hab. ; Gray, Man. ed. 2, 358, not Poir. Wet and shady river-banks, W. Illinois and Mis- 

 souri to W. Georgia and Texas. The habitat of this and of F. ligustrina must have been 

 transposed in Michaux's Flora. 



F. Neo-Mexicana, Gray. Shrub 6 to 10 feet high, glabrous : leaves spatulate-oblong, 

 obtuse or obtusely acuminate, short-petioled, obtusely or obsoletely serrulate, an inch 

 long : fertile flowers in sessile fascicles : calyx minute and rather persistent : drupe obtuse, 

 short-oblong or ovoid. Proc. Am. Acad. xii. (53. F. (icitminata, var. part- /folia, Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. iv. 364. New Mexico, and adjacent borders of Texas and Colorado, Fcndler, 

 Wrii/ht, Palmer, Brandeyee. 



Var. Arizonica. Young shoots and foliage soft-pubescent ; only earliest leaves 

 seen, those entire. Near Prescott, Arizona, Palmer. 



F. ligustrina, Poir. More or less pubescent with short spreading hairs : leaves obovate 

 or oblong with narrowed base, short-petioled,. appressed-serrulate, rounded at apex, usually 

 an inch long : fertile flowers in simple fascicles : calyx almost obsolete : drupe short-ovoid, 

 sessile: putamen smooth and even. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 301, partly. Adelia liyus- 



