ASH FAMILY 



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Desert ranges, 5000 to 11,000 feet : Inyo Co. and eastern Mohave Desert. East 

 to Colorado and Texas. May, fr. July. 



Geog. note. — Fraxinus anomala reaches its western limits on the eastern desert borders of 

 California and is known only from a few stations : Telescope Peak, Panamint Range, Jepson 7017 ; 

 Gilroy Caiion, Providence Mts., Jepson 18,230. At both these stations the species is represented 

 by one or a few individuals and there is no present evidence of extension of area by seedlings. 

 The station in Gilroy Caiion is a favorable spot in the caiion bottom protected from intense 

 insolation by a high south wall where the original individual has been replaced by a circle of root- 

 crown sprouts, the circle being 8 feet in diameter. The sprouts were, in. 1937, 12 feet high with 

 stem diameters of 1 to 3 inches at 4 inches above the ground. 



Eefs. — Fraxinus anomala Torr. ; Wats., Bot. King 283 (1871), type from Utah, New- 

 herry; Jepson, Silva Cal. 280 (1910), Trees Cal. ed. 2, 139 (1923), Man. 759 (1925). 



4. F. dipetala H. & A. Foothill Ash. Shrub 5 to 15 (or 22) feet high; herb- 

 age glabrous or nearly so; leaves 2 to 6 inches long; leaflets 3 to 9, serrate above the 

 middle, % to l^/^ (or 2I/4) inches long; petals 2, white, about 3 lines long; samaras 

 oblong, % to 114 inches long, 3 to 31/2 lines wide, the wing frequently notched at tip. 



Canon .sides and mountain slopes, 400 to 3700 feet : Sierra Nevada from Shasta 

 Co. to Tulare Co. ; inner North Coast Range from Siskiyou Co. to Solano Co. ; South 

 Coast Ranges from Contra Costa Co. to San Luis Obispo Co.; coastal Southern 

 California south to Orange Co. Apr.-lMay, fr. June- Aug. 



Field note. — This species is sometimes distinctly arborescent and is a showy species when the 

 panicles are in full flower. For this reason it is sometimes called Flowering Ash, since it differs 

 markedly in this from our arboreous species with their inconspicuous flowers. The center of dis- 

 tribution from the standpoint of abundance, size of individuals and uniformity of character is, 

 perhaps, on the west side of the San Carlos Range in San Benito County. It also attains a large 

 size on the Arroyo Seco in the Santa Lucia Mts., where individuals 22 feet high and 4 inches in 

 trunk diameter have been found (Jepson Field Book 24:98. ms.). 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: betw. Fourteen Mile House and Forest Ranch, Butte Co., Heller 

 11,405; Kinsley, Mariposa Co., Hoak ; betw. North Fork and Fish Creek, San Joaquin River, 

 Madera Co., Jepson 12,876; Davis Ranch to Watson Spr., North Fork Kaweah River, Jepson 571; 

 Grouse Valley, Tulare Co., Jepson; North Tule River, Purpus 1712. 

 Coast Ranges: Dunsmuir, X. E. Smith; Hough's Sprs., ne. Lake Co., 

 Jepson; Weldon Canon, Vaca Mts., Jepson 2187; Arroyo Seco, Santa 

 Lucia Mts., Jepson; Paso Eobles, Benj. Cobh; Waltham Creek, sw. 

 Fresno Co., Jepson. S. Cal.: Los Olivos, Virginia P. Fox; Zaca Lake, 

 Santa Barbara Co., Condit ; Ojai, Olive Thacher; Pacoima Caiion, San 

 Gabriel Mts., Peirson 383; Mill Creek Caiion, San Bernardino Mts., 

 Parish 2033 ; Santa Ana River Caiion, Santa Ana Mts., J. T. Howell. 



Eefs. — Fraxinus dipetala H. & A., Bot. Beech. 362 (1841), type 

 from Cal., Douglas; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 385 (1901), ed. 2, 319 

 (1911), Silva Cal. 280 (1910), Man. 759 (1925). 



2. FORESTIERA Poir. 



Shrubs with opposite simple leaves. Flowers inconspicu- 

 ous, dioecious or polygamous, few in a small panicle. Calyx 

 minute or obsolete. Corolla none, or rarely 1 or 2 small pet- 

 als. Stamens 2 to 4. Ovules 2 in each cell; style slender. 

 Drupe 1-seeded. — Species 14, North and South America. 

 (M. Forestier, a French physician.) 



Fig. 327. FORESTI- 

 ERA neo-mexicana 

 Gray. Fruiting branch- 

 let, X %. 



1. F. neo-mexicana Gray. Desket Olive. (Fig. 327.) 

 Glabrous shrub with spiny branchlets, 5 to 14 feet high; bark 

 smooth, light gray or yellowish; leaves often fascicled, the 

 blades obovate to oblong, acute, serrulate above the cuneate 

 base or entire, I/2 to 11/2 inches long, the petiole 1 to 3 lines long; flowers in sessile 

 clusters; drupe blue-black, ovoid, 3 to 4 lines long. 



Valley flats and mountain caiions, 150 to 5500 feet : South Coast Ranges; Mo- 

 have Desert and its bordering ranges; San Jacinto Mts. ; Inyo Co. East to Colorado 

 and Texas. Apr.-May, fr. Aug.-Oct. 



