164 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



account of its rapid and clean growth, freedom from disease, 

 moderate shade, and richly colored autumn foliage. As the 

 {eaves appear late in spring and fall early in autumn, it is 

 desirable to plant with other trees of different habit. Prop- 

 agated from seed. 



PLATE LXXXIII. FRAXINUS AMERICANA. 



1. Winter buds. 



2. Branch with sterile flowers. 



3. Sterile flowers. 



4. Branch with fertile flowers. 



5. Fertile flower. 



6. Fruiting branch. 



Fraxinus Pennsylvania, Marsh. 



Fraxinus pubescens, Lam. 

 RED ASH. BROWN ASH. RIVER ASH. 



Habitat and Range. River banks, swampy lowlands, mar- 

 gins of streams and ponds. 



New Brunswick to Manitoba. 



Maine, infrequent ; New Hampshire, occasional, extend- 

 ing as far north as Boscawen in the Merrimac valley ; Ver- 

 mont, common along Lake Cham plain and its tributaries 

 (Flora of Vermont, 1900) ; occasional in other sections ; Mas- 

 sachusetts and Rhode Island, sparingly scattered through- 

 out ; Connecticut, reported from East Hartford, Westville, 

 Canaan, and Lisbon (J. N. Bishop). 



South to Florida and Alabama; west to Dakota, Nebraska, Kan- 

 sas, and Missouri. 



Habit. Medium-sized to large tree, 30-70 feet high, with 

 trunk 1-3 feet in diameter ; erect, branches spreading, broad- 

 headed ; in general appearance resembling the white ash. 



Bark. Trunk dark gray or brown, smooth in young trees, 

 furrowed in old, furrows rather shallower than in the white 

 ash; branches grayish; young shoots greenish-gray with a 



