358 OLEACEiE. (OLIVE FAMILY.) 



wing. (F. tomentosa, Miclix.) — "With the preceding: rare west of the Alle- 

 ghanies. — A smaller tree, furnishing less valuable timber. 



3. F. via'Mis, Michx. f. (Green Ash.) Glabrous throughout; leaflets 

 5-9, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, often wedge-shaped at the base and serrate 

 above, bright green both sides ; fruit acute at the base, striate, 2-eclged or margined, 

 gradually dilated into an oblanceolate or linear-spatulate wing, much as in No. 

 2. (F. 'concolor, Muhl. F. juglandifolia, Willd., DC, and ed. 1, but not of 

 lam.) — Near streams, New England to Wisconsin and southward; most com- 

 mon westward. — A small or middle-sized tree. (The figure of the fruit given 

 in Michaux's Sylva evidently belongs to F. Americana.) 



* * Fruit winged all round the seed-bearing portion. 

 -t- Calyx wanting, at least in the fertile flowers, which are entirely naked ! 



4. F. saaifoucifoSaa, Lam. (Black Ash. Water Ash.) Branch- 

 lets and petioles glabrous; leaflets 7-11, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, tapering to 

 a point, serrate, obtuse or rounded at the base, green and smooth both sides, 

 when young with some rusty hairs along the midrib ; fruit linear-oblong or nar- 

 rowly elliptical, blunt at both ends. — Swamps and along streams, Penn. to 

 Kentucky, and everywhere northward. April, May. — Tree rather small, its 

 tough wood easily separable into thin layers, used for coarse basket-work, &c. 

 Bruised leaves with tbe odor of Elder. 



-t- h- Calyx present, persistent at the base of the fruit. 



5. F. quada-aug-nlata, Michx. (Blue Ash.) Branchlels square, at 

 least on vigorous shoots, glabrous ; leaflets 7-9, short-stalked, oblong-ovate or 

 lanceolate, pointed, sharply serrate, green both sides ; fruit narrowly oblong, blunt, 

 and of the same width at both ends, or slightly narrowed at the base, often notched 

 at the apex (l.V long, £'-§' wide). — Dry or moist rich woods, Ohio and Mich- 

 igan to Illinois and Kentucky. — Tree large, with timber like No. 1. 



6. F. pialycat'pa, Michx. (Carolina Water-Ash.) Branchlets 

 terete, glabrous or pubescent ; leaflets 5-7, ovate or oblong, acute at both ends, 

 short-stalked ; fruit broadly winged (not rarely 3-wingcd), oblong (f wide), with a 

 tapering base. — Wet woods, Virginia and southward. March. 



5. FOUESTIEfSA, Poir. (Adelia, Michx.) 



Flowers dioecious, crowded in catkin-like scaly buds from the axils of last 

 year's leaves, imbricated with scales. Corolla none. Calyx early deciduous, 

 of 4 minute sepals. Stamens 2-4: anthers oblong. Ovary ovate, 2-celled, 

 with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell : style slender : stigma somewhat 2-lobed. 

 Drupe small, ovoid, 1-celled, 1 -seeded. — Shrubs, with opposite and often fasci- 

 tied deciduous leaves and small flowers. Fertile peduncles short, 1 -3-flowered 

 {Named for M. Forestier, a French physician.) 



1. F. acuminata, Poir. Glabrous; leaves thin, oblong-ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, often serrulate; drupe oblong, usually 

 pointed. — Wet banks, W. Illinois and southward. April. 



