OLEACEZ. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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FRAXINUS FLORIDANA. 
Water Ash. 
LEAFLeETs usually 3 to 5, oblong, acuminate, long-petiolulate. 
Fraxinus Floridana. 
Fraxinus platycarpa, var. Floridana, Wenzig, Bot. Jahrb. 
iv. 185 (1883). 
Fraxinus Caroliniana, Sargent, Silva N. Am. vi. 55 (in 
part) (not Miller) (1894). 
A small Ash-tree which grows in ponds and deep river-swamps in eastern and western Florida 
and in southern Georgia and which has usually been considered a form of the Water Ash, Fraainus 
Caroliniana varies constantly from that species in the form of the fruit. It is desirable that a plate of 
this second species of Water Ash should appear in a Silva of North America, and although the foliage 
and winter-buds do not afford characters by which the two trees can be readily distinguished in the 
herbarium, it is convenient to treat them as species rather than as varieties. The fruit of Frawinus 
Caroliniana is elliptical or spatulate and frequently three-winged, with thin wings which surround the 
short slender compressed body, and are acute at the apex, not much more than twice as long as they 
are wide, usually narrowed below into a short stalk-like base, many-nerved, and marked by conspicuous 
deeply impressed midnerves. The fruit of Frawinus Floridana, as the second species must be called, 
is lanceolate or oblanceolate, rounded and emarginate at the gradually narrowed apex, and about four 
times as long as it is wide, with rather obscure midveins. 
Fraxinus Floridana was described by Wenzig from specimens collected in Florida by Cabanis’ 
more than sixty years ago. It has been collected in recent years near Jacksonville,” Eustis,’ and Appa- 
lachicola,* Florida, and in Charlton County, southern Georgia.® 
1 Jean Cabanis (March 8, 1816) was born in Berlin of a family 
of French Protestants which had emigrated to Germany during the 
reign of Louis XIV. He began his scientific career as assistant in 
the Zodlogical Museum at Berlin during the administration of Pro- 
fessor Lichtenstein and under his direction visited the United States 
to collect birds. He remained in America from 1839 to 1843 and 
made large ornithological collections in South Carolina, where he 
spent most of his time during his American visit, and in Florida. 
His small collection of American plants is preserved in the Botan- 
ical Museum at Berlin. Cabanis has been a prolific writer on sys- 
tematic ornithology. He 
the third volume of Schomburgk’s work on Guiana, published in 
1848, and the Ornithologische Notizen in Wiegmann’s Archiv fir 
Naturgeschichte, published in 1847, oe with F. Heine was the 
author of Verzeichnis ithologi: Samm: 
Hace 
d the account of the birds in 
der or g des Museum 
Heineanum, 1850-63. His most important work appeared in the 
Journal fiir Ornithologie, of which he was the editor from 1853 to 
1893. 
2 By A. H. Curtiss, No. 2321. 
8 By G. V. Nash, August, 1894, and distributed as Frazinus 
epiptera. 
4 By J. Roth, May, 1897, and by Chapman and Sargent, March, 
1898. 
5 By J. K. Small, January, 1895, in the St. Mary’s River Swamp 
below Traders’ Hill, and distributed as Fraxinus epiptera. 
A specimen collected by Fendler at New Orleans in April, 1846 
(in herb. Engelmann), with partly grown fruit is perhaps of this 
species, as are possibly specimens distributed by Ashe as Fraxinus 
epiptera from Bladen County, North Carolina (Nos. 1860 and 
1862). 
