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and westward to Nebraska, and southward to the Gulf, but it is 

 becoming scarce in many localities, where a few years ago it 

 was quite abundant. We have no native tree more worthy of 

 extended cultivation than the White Ash, or one the wood of 

 which is likely to be in greater demand a few years hence. 



F, A. var. microcarpa, is a kind of a sport, found in Alabama, 

 with very small fruit, but seedless or without any germ or meat, 

 as usually termed. 



F. A. var. Texensis, is a small tree with about five leaflets, 

 with fruit scarcely an inch long. Has been described under 

 various names by different botanists. A low growing tree, on 

 rocky hills, from Austin, Texas, to the Rio Grande. Gray, in 

 Flora of North America. 



F. auomala, Torr. — Leaves mostly simple, sometunes two or 

 three foUate ; oval or heart-shaped, thin ; the young shoots soft, 

 pubescent. Flowers in short panicles. Fruit oblong, wings 

 extending to the base. A small tree in Southern Utah, some- 

 times twenty feet high or over m the canyons. 



F. cnspidata, Torr. — Leaves five to seven, lanceolate, and 

 gradually tapering to a sharp point. Flowers with a four- 

 pointed corolla, a half inch long. Fruit small, about a half 

 loch long. A small shrub, six to eight feet high in South- 

 western Texas and New Mexico. 



F. dipetela, Hook, and Am. — Two-petaled Ash. — Leaflets five 

 to nine, oval or oblong, serrate, and only an inch or two long. 

 Flowers with two petals, in panicles clustered on short, lateral 

 spurs. Fruit about an Inch long, broad at the top, with sharp 

 edges below. This is the Omits dijjetela of NuttaU. A small 

 tree in Western California, and of which there are two or three 

 natural varieties. 



F. Greggli, Gray. — Is a small shrub, closely allied to the last, 

 and fovmd in limestone soils in Southwest Texas and in New 

 Mexico. 



F. Oregona, Nutt. — Oregon Ash. — Leaflets five to seven, 

 lanceolate-oblong to oval, entire, or nearly so, two to four 

 inches long. Fruit about an inch long, somewhat club-shaped, 

 widening upward into a long, broad wing. A large tree, with 

 wood resembling the White Ash of the East. Along streams 

 in Washington Territory, and southward near the coast to San 

 Francisco. 



F. pistacisefoUa, Torr. — Leaflets five to nine, petioles short, 



