ANGIOSPERM TREES 



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Florida and from southern Michigan to eastern Texas, and 

 the Pacific dogwood which ranges along the coast from 

 British Columbia southward to California. Both are small 

 trees whose short, tapering trunks are topped by large-limbed, 



Fig. 221 . — Dogwood trees have opposite oval leaves, and small yellow flowers in 

 compact heads surrounded by large showy bracts. 



bushy crowns. Their woods are hard, heavy, close grained, and 

 pinkish brown; and both trees are prized and widely planted as 

 ornamentals. 



The Ashes 



The ASHES (Fraxinus) are represented in North America by 

 almost twenty species, all 

 having opposite, compound 

 leaves. Greenish flowers are 

 borne in dense clusters and 

 ripen into single-seeded, wing- 

 ed fruits (fig. 222). 



The ashes include six spe- 

 cies deserving of mention as 

 timber producing trees, five of 

 which are predominantly 

 eastern in their ranges and 

 one which is a Pacific coast tree. White ash is the largest 

 and most abundant of American ashes. Inhabiting deep, 



Fig. 222. — All of the ash species have 

 opposite compound leaves. 



