358 OLEACE^E. (OLIVE FAMILY.) 



wing. (F. tomentosa, Mich.r.) With the preceding: rare west of the Alle- 

 ghanies. A smaller tree, furnishing less valuable timber. 



3. F. \i rid is, Michx. f. (GREEN ASH.) Glabrous throw/bout ; 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-cd<;<d or margined, 

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

 2. (F. concolor, Mnld. F. juglandifolia, WilUl., DC., and ed. \, 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 teed-bearing portion. 

 *- Calyx wanting, at least in the fertile flowers, which are entirely nalcnl ! 



4. F. saillbucifolia, Lam. (BLACK ASH. WATER ASH.) Branch- 

 lets and petioles glabrous; leaflets 1 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 the odor of Elder. 



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



5. F. quadrailglllata, Michx. (BLUE ASH.) Branchlets square, at 

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

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

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

 at the apex (!' long, 4'-$' wide). Dry or moist rich woods, Ohio and Mich- 

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



6. F. platycarpa, 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-winged), oblong ($' wide), with a 

 tajwiny base. Wet woods, Virginia and southward. March. 



5. FORESTlEItA, Poir. (ADKLIA, 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-eelled, 

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

 Drupe small, ovoid, 1-celled, 1-seedctf Shrubs, with opposite and often fasci- 

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

 (Named for M. I-\>r<*ti,r, a French physician.) 



1. F. OCliminiflfa, Poir. Glabrous; 1( avcs thin, oblong-ovate or ovate- 

 lite, acuminate at both ends, often seimiale; drupe oblong, usually 

 pointed. Wet bunks, W. Illiuow and southward. April. 



