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SYLVA AMERICANA. 



Green Ash. Fraxinus viridis. 



The Green Ash is mor 

 common in the western 

 districts of Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland and Virginia than 

 in any other part of the 

 United States ; but even 

 here It is less multiplied 

 than the white ash and black 

 ash. It is found on the 

 islands of the Susquehannah, 

 and grows most abundantly 

 on the banks of the Monon- 

 gahela and the Ohio. 



This tree attains the height 

 of 25 or 30 feet, with a 

 diameter of four or five 

 inches. It may be easily 

 recognized by the brilliant color of the young shoots and of its 

 leaves, of which the two surfaces are nearly alike, are from six 

 to fifteen inches in length, according to the vigor of the tree and 

 to the coolness of the soil, and are composed of three, four or five 

 pair of petiolated, oval acuminate and distinctly denticulated 

 leaflets, surmounted by an odd one. It puts forth greenish* 

 flowers in May, which are succeeded by seeds, similar in form 

 to those of the white ash, though only half as large. 



The wood of the green ash is distinguished by the same 

 properties with that of the preceding species; but as the others 

 are common in the same regions, and are so much superior in 

 size it is only accidentally employed. 



* 



Fig. 1. 



PLATE XXXIII. 



A leaflet. Fig. 2. The seed. 







