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much smaller. Winter-buds terminal, broadly ovate, obtuse, light reddish brown, 

 aud covered with close pale pubescence. Bark of the trunk ^' |' thick, light gray 

 and divided bv shallow fissures into broad flat or rounded ridg^es broken on the sur- 

 face into thin closely appressed scales. 



Distribution. Deep river swamps often inundated during several months of the 

 year; southeastern Missouri, eastern Arkansas, and the valley of the lower Appala- 

 chicola River, Florida. 



13. Fraxinus Biltmoreana, Beadl. 



Leaves 10'-12' long, with stout pubescent or puberulous petioles, and 7-9 ovate- 

 oblong or lanceolate often falcate leaflets acuminate at the apex, rounded or broadly 



cuneate and often inequilateral at the base, and raised on stout elongated pubescent 

 petiolules, when they unfold yellow-bronze color and nearly glabrous above, coated 

 beneath, particularly on the midribs and veins, with long white hairs, and at ma- 

 turity 3' -4' long, f^-1' wide, thick and firm in texture, dark green and slightly 

 lustrous on the upper, pale or glaucous and puberulous below along the slender 

 yellow midribs, and primary veins arcuate near the slightly thickened aud incurved 



