496 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



1. Forestiera neomexicana A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 12: 63. 1876. 

 Adelia neomexicana Kuntzej Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 410. 1891. 



Type locality: New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler. 



Range: Colorado to Arizona and western Texas. 



New Mexico: San Juan Valley; Carrizo Mountains; Pajarito Park; Craters; Puer- 

 tecito; Mangas Springs; Sapello Creek; Rio Negrito. River valleys, in the Upper 

 Sonoran Zone. 



2. Forestiera pubescens Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. ser. 5: 177. 1837. 

 Addia jnihcscens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 410. 1891. 



Type locality: " In the prairies of Red River." 



Range : Oklahoma and Texas to eastern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Queen; Lincoln National Forest. Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. FRAXINTTS L. Ash. 



Large or small trees ^nth opposite pinnate leaves and inconspicuous dioecious 

 flowers in clusters or panicles; calyx with a short tube and 4 unequal lobes or want- 

 ing; stamens 2 to 4, the filaments short or elongated; ovary 2-celled, the styles united, 

 the stigma 2-cleft; fruit a samara, with flat or terete body and a single wing partly 

 surrounding it. • 



KEY TO the species. 



Leaves usually simple 4. F. anomala. 



Leaves pinnate. 



Flowers with a 4-parted corolla; leaflets small, 35 mm. long or less. 1. F. cuspidata. 

 Flowers apetalous; leaflets more than 40 mm. long. 



Leaflets sessile or nearly so 2. F. velutina. 



Leaflets distinctly stalked 3. F. attenuata. 



1. Fraxinus cuspidata Torr. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Bot. 166. 1859. Flowering ash. 

 Type locality: "Eagle Mountains and Great Canon of the Rio Grande," Texas. 

 Range : Western Texas to Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 



New Mexico: Grant; McCarthy Station; San Andreas Mountains; Big Hatchet 

 Mountains. Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. Fraxinus velutina Torr. in Emory, Mil. Reconn. 149. 1848. 

 Fraxinus pistaciaefolia Torr. U. S. Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4: 128. 1856. 



Type locality: "Between the waters of the Del Norte and the Gila," New Mexico. 

 Type collected by Emory in 1847. 



Range : Western Texas to Arizona. 



New Mexico: San Luis Mountains; Florida Mountains; Animas Mountains; 

 Organ Mountains; White Mountains. Low mountains, LTpper Sonoran and Transi- 

 tion zones. 



3. Fraxinus attenuata Jones, Contr.-West. Bot. 12: 59. 1908. 

 Fraxinus toumeyi Britt. & Shaf. N. Amer. Trees 803. 1908. 



Type locality: Valley of Palms, Lower California, and Santa Catalina Mountains, 

 Arizona. 



Range: New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent Mexico. 



New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Black Range; Dog Mountains; San Luis Moun- 

 tains; Organ Mountains; Las Palomas. Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



4. Fraxinus anomala Torr.; S. Wats, in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 6: 283. 1871. 

 Type locality: "In Labyrinth Canon on the Colorado River, Utah." 



Range: L'tah and Nevada to Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Carrizo Mountains {Sta7idlcy 7316). Dry rocky hills, in the Upper 

 Sonoran Zone. 



