GREEN ASH (Fraxinus lanceolata, Borkh.). 50 to 60 feet. 

 Round-headed tree, with slender, spreading branches; twigs 

 gray. Bark gray, regularly furrowed; branches smooth. 

 Wood heavy, hard, strong, brown, coarse-grained, used as 

 white ash, but inferior. Leaves smooth, green on both sides, 

 lustrous above, of 5 to 9 leaflets, each narrowly ovate, taper- 

 ing, sharply serrate, on short stalks. Flowers before leaves, 

 dioecious. Fruit slender- seeded, with narrow wing more than 

 1 inch long. Dist.: Commonest from Rockies through Mis- 

 sissippi Basin. Important shade tree. Dakota to Texas. Kare 

 from Lake Champlain to Florida 



