36 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. OLEACEZ, 
This magnificent tree, which surpasses the other American species of this genus in the size of its 
leaves and fruit and in the size of the calyx of the pistillate flower, was discovered in September, 
1893, by Mr. B. F. Bush at Campbell, Missouri.’ 
Mr. Ashe has sent to me from the bottoms of the Cape Fear 
1 The Ash-tree from the Atlantic coast, referred to this species 
River, North Carolina, is probably Fraxinus Americana. 
by Ashe (Bot. Gazette, xxviii. 271), judging by the small fruiting 
calyx and the glabrous leaves of the fragmentary specimens which 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Prats DCCXIV. FRaxinus PROFUNDA. 
. A branch with staminate flowers, natural size. 
. A staminate flower, enlarged. 
A branch with pistillate flowers, natural size. 
A pistillate flower, enlarged. 
A wpe 
Pratt DCCXYV. FRAxINUS PROFUNDA. 
A cluster of fruit, natural size. 
A leaf, natural size. 
A winter branchlet, natural size. 
Seashore 
