PLANTS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 635 



Fl. — Mid-June to late June. Fr. — October and November, 

 after frost. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale, New Egypt, Camden, Gloucester (P), West- 

 ville (P), Medford (S), Washington Park, Bridgeport, Swedesboro, York- 

 town (S), Albion, Andrews, Williamstown Jnc. 



Coast Strip. — Toms River (Mick.), Forked River, Holgate's (L), Stafiford- 

 ville, Atlantic City (S), Mays Landing (S), Ocean City (S), Piermont (S), 

 Cold Spring (S), Cape May Ct. House. 



Cape May. — Bennett. 



Order GENTIANALES. 



Family OLEACE^. Olive, Ash, etc. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Flowers with slender, long lobed, white flowers, forming fringe-like pan- 

 icles ; leaves opposite entire, fruit a blue drupe. Chionanthus, p. 636 

 aa. Flowers small, green, leaves pinnate, fruit a winged seed (samara). 

 b. Lateral leaflets with short petioles. 



c. Wing of fruit almost entirely terminal, not developed on the sides 

 of the seed. Fraxinus americana, p. 635 



cc. Wing beginning at the base of the seed and continued along its 

 sides, widening gradually. 

 d. Branches, petioles and sometimes the under surface of the 

 leaves pubescent. 

 e. Samara narrowly spatulate, leaves thin serrate. 



F. pennsylvanica, p. 635 

 ee. Samara broadly spatulate, leaves thick entire. 



F. michauxi, p. 636 

 dd. Branches, etc., glabrous, leaves bright green, both sides. 



F. p. lanceolata, p. 636 

 bb. Lateral leaflets sessile. F. nigra, p. 636 



FRAXINUS L. 

 Fraxinus americana L. White Ash. 



Fraxinus americana Linnseus, Sp. PL 1057. 1753 [Carolina and Virginia]. — 

 Britton 167. 



Rich woods of the northern counties; rare southward within 

 our limits and in the Middle district only. 



Fl. — Early iMay to mid-May. Fr. — Early Autumn. 



Middle District.— Arney's Mt. (S), Camden (P), Mickleton (P), Atco 

 (C), Yorktown (S). 



Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh. Red Ash. 



Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall, Arb. Am. 51. 1785 [probably Pennsyl- 

 vania]. 

 Fraximus pubescens Britton 167. 



