228 Trees with Compound Leaves. [E i, n 



Fig. 114. Black Ash, Water Ash, Hoop Ash. F. sambucifolia. 



Lam. 



Leaves, COMPOUND (odd-feathered ; leaflets, seven to eleven, 

 usually nine) ; OPPOSITE ; EDGE OF LEAFLET TOOTHED. 



Outline of leaflet, narrow, long oval or long egg-shape. 

 Apex, taper-pointed. Base, rounded. 



Leaf-stem, smooth, somewhat flattened or channelled, and 

 with sharp edges above the leaflets. 



Leaflet-stem, lacking. 



Leaf -bud, deep blue or blackish. 



Leaflet, three to five inches long, smooth and green on 

 both sides, excepting where it is slightly hairy along 

 the lower part of the middle rib. When crushed it 

 has an Elder-like odor. 



Bark of trunk, dark granite-gray, somewhat furrowed and 

 broken up and down with roughnesses, which con- 

 tinue in the old tree. The young branches are 

 smooth and grayish and marked with black and 

 white dots and warts. 



Winged seeds nearly one and one half inches long, with 

 the wing three eighths of an inch wide and extending 

 around the seed. Ripe in July. 



Found, along low river-banks and in swamps, which it 

 sometimes fills ; in Delaware, the mountains of Vir- 

 ginia, Northwestern Arkansas, through the Northern 

 States to Canada. It is the most Northern of the 

 American Ashes. 



Usually a small or medium-sized tree. The wood is 

 largely used for barrel-hoops, baskets, in cabinet-work, 

 and interior finish. 



