OLIVE FAMILY. 667 



Tree little above medium size, from 40 to nearly 60 feet high and over a foot in 

 diameter, with stout brauehes aud spreadiug branchlets. 



Distiuguished from F. ame.ricnna by the velvety twigs and petioles, clove-brown 

 buds, and the elliptical body of the large samara. 



Carolinian area. North Carolina and northern Georgia. 



Alabama : Mountain region ; Coosa hills, rocky creek banks. Cullman County. 

 St. Clair County, near Ashville. Jackson County, Saud Mountain (Biltmore Herb.), 

 from 700 to 900 feet altitude. Local and scarce, individuals occurring singly. 



The tree on Rines Creek, Cullman County, fully 16 inches in diameter and ()0 feet 

 high. 



Economic uses: Timber tree. 



Type locality: "Biltmore, N. C." (Altitude 1,900 feet.) 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Frayinus lanceolata Borkh. Handb. Forst. Bot. 1 : 826. 1800. Green Ash. 



Fraxinus riridis Michx. Hist. Arb. Am. 3 : 115. t. 10. 1813. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 336. Chap. Fl. 370. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 259. Gray, 

 Sy n. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 75. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 6 : 5, «. 272. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario to Saskatchewan; New England west 

 to Minnesota, the eastern ranges of the Rocky Mountains, Montana, and Utah ; 

 southward to Florida aud the Gulf States, extending to Texas and eastern and 

 northern Arizona. 



Alabama: Throughout the State. In low forests subject to overflow. Flowers 

 March, April; fruit ripe .July. A tree of medium to large size, of best development 

 in the alluvial forests of the lower Alabama and Tonibigbee rivers, where trees 

 over 2 feet in diameter are not infreciuently met with. 



Economic uses: Timber tree; important for lumber and fuel. 



Type locality : 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Fraxinus caroliniana Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 6. 1786. Water A.sh. Pop A.sh. 

 Fraxinus plaUjcarpa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 256. 1803. 

 Ell. Sk. 2 : 673. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 336. Chap. Fl. 370. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 



75. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 6 : 35, /. 274. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southeastern Virginia along the coast to 

 southern Florida, west to Louisiana aud southern Arkansas. 



Alabama. Central Pine belt to Coast jilain. Deep swamps of alluvial forests, wet 

 shaded banks of pine-barren streams. Tuscaloosa, Clarke, Baldwin, and Mobile 

 counties. Flowers February (16th), fruit shed in October. Frequent. Tree below 

 medium size, rarely over 30 feet high and 12 inches in diameter. Frecjuent. 



Type localitv: "Raised from seeds which were sent from Carolina in the year 

 1824, by Mr. Ca'tesby." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Fraxinus quadrangulata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 255. 1803. Blue Ash. 



Grav, Man. ed. 6, 336. Chap. Fl. 370. Gray, Svn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 75. Sargent, 

 Silv.N.A.6:3.5, «.„^65. 



Alleghenian aud Carolinian areas. Ontario, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, 

 and the mountains of North Carolina. 



Alabaaia: Tennessee Valley. Dry limestone hills and cedar brakes. Madison 

 County, lluntsville. Jackson County, Scottsboro. Occurring only on the northern 

 decdivity of the Tennessee Valley, greatly reduced in size, scarcely over 30 feet high, 

 and 6 to 8 inches in dianietor. Not frecjuent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Kentucky et Tennasst^e." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



ADELIA P. Br. Hist. Jam. ,361. 1756. 

 ( FoRESTiERA Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 2 : 664. 1811. ) 

 Ten species. West Indies, warmer North America, 8. 

 Adelia acuminata Michx. Fl. Bor. Anu 2 : 225, t. 48. 1803. Swamp Privet. 



Forestiera acuminata Poir. Encycl. Supjd. 2 : 664. 1811. 

 Ell. Sk. 2 : (i75. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 336. Chap. Fl. 370. Grav, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 1 : 



76. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:260. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Fennessee, southern Illinois, southern Missouri, 

 and Arkansas, south to Florida, west to Texas aud the Colorado Valley. 



Alabama' Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Miry banks of rivers. Mobile 

 County, Mount Vetnou Baldwin County, Stockton. Flowers March, April; fruit 

 ripe, not frequent, Septemlier. October, black. 



