Privet. 0LEACE2E. 



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open ducts ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color light yellow 

 streaked with brown, the sap-wood lighter ; largely used for flooring, in 

 carriage-building, etc. 



197. Fraxinus Oregana, Nutt. 

 Oregon Ash. 



Shores of Puget Sound, south through Washington and Oregon west of 

 the eastern valleys of the Cascade Mountains, along the California Coast 

 Ranges to San Francisco Bay and the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada 

 to the San Bernardino and Hot Spring Mountains, California. 



A tree sometimes 24 metres in height, with a trunk rarely exceeding 

 0.60 metre in diameter ; moist soil, generally along streams, and reaching 

 its greatest development on the bottom-lands of southwestern Oregon. 



Wood light, hard, not strong, brittle, coarse-grained, compact, contain- 

 ing many large open scattered ducts, the layers of annual growth strongly 

 marked "with several rows of similar ducts ; medullary rays numerous, 

 thin ; color brown, the sap-wood lighter ; used iu the manufacture of 

 furniture, for the frames of carriages and wagons, in cooperage, for 

 fuel, etc. 



198. Fraxinus sambucifolia, Lam. 

 Black Ash. Hoop Ash. Ground Ash. 



Southern Newfoundland and northern shores of the Gulf of Saint 

 Lawrence, southwesterly to the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg, south 

 through the northern States to northern Delaware, the mountains of Vir- 

 ginia, southern Illinois, and northwestern Arkansas. 



A tree 25 to 30 metres in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.60 metre in 

 diameter ; swamps and low river banks. 



Wood heavy, soft, not strong, tough, rather coarse-grained, compact, 

 durable, separating easily into thin layers ; layers of annual growth 

 strongly marked by several rows of large open ducts ; medullary rays 

 numerous, thin ; color dark brown, the sap-wood light brown or often 

 nearly white ; largely used for interior finish, fencing, barrel-hoops, in 

 cabinet-making, and the manufacture of baskets. 



199. Forestiera acuminata, Poir. 

 Privet. 



Southwestern Georgia, western Florida, through the Gulf States to 

 the valley of the Colorado River, Texas, and northward through Arkansas 

 to southern Missouri and southwestern Illinois. 



A small tree, 6 to 8 metres in height, with a trunk rarely 0.20 metre 

 in diameter ; borders of swamps and streams, in low, wet soil ; common 

 in the Gulf region, near the coast, and reaching its greatest development 

 in southern Arkansas. 



