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various other purposes. It also makes excellent fuel. The bark 



has been used in domestic medicine, and the leaves are said to repel 



rattlesnakes.* 



Grows in rich woods, on river-banks, etc. 



lA. Limestone County. 

 IB. Frequent. 



2B. Bluffs near Simpson's Creek, Cullman County. Fayette, Walker, 

 Tuscaloosa and Bibb Counties. 

 3. Frequent. 



5. Clay, Chilton and Elmore Counties. 

 6A. Greene County. 



7. Sumter and Dallas Counties. 



8. Montgomery and Barbour Counties. 



9. Sumter County. 



lOE. Pike, Dale and Coffee Counties. 



low. Sumter, Choctaw, Wilcox, Monroe and Butler Counties. 



11. Choctaw, Washington, Clarke and Monroe Counties. 



Fraxinus lanceolata, Borkh. 



Grows mostly on river-banks. Probably widely distributed 

 (said by Dr. Mohr to range "throughout the state"), but not iden- 

 tified by the writer until May, 1921, when it was observed to be 

 one of the commonest trees along the Locust Fork of the War- 

 rior River, all the way across Jefferson County. I have since seen 

 what is probably the same thing in Morgan, Bibb, Dallas and But- 

 ler Counties, and in the upper part of the Mobile delta. 



Fraxinus Caroliniana, Mill. {F. platycarpa, Mx.) (Pop-ash) 



A small leaning or crooked tree of little economic importance. 



growing in swamps of various kinds, mostly in the coastal plain. 



2B. Formerly on Squaw Shoals, Tuscaloosa County, but destroyed by 

 the "Lock 17" dam in 1915. 



3. St. Clair County (Mohr, Plant Life, p. 67). 

 6A. Tuscaloosa County. 



7. Dallas (Cocks) and Montgomery Counties. 



8. Russell County. 



lOE. Dale and Covington Counties, 

 low. Butler County. 

 11. Clarke and Conecuh Counties. 

 14. Mobile County. 



Fraxinus quadrangulata, Mx. (Blue Ash). 



A small or medium-sized tree. Sometimes cultivated for or- 

 nament. The wood is considered desirable for handles of pitch- 

 forks and similar tools. The inner bark is said to yield a blue dye. 



*See Samuel Woodruff, Am. Jour. Sci. 2i -.^2,7 -22>9 . 1833. 



