BRIEFER ARTICLES 
NOTES ON SOME AMERICAN TREES. 
Fraxinus catawbiensis, n. sp.— A large tree 20-35” in height, with 
a cylindrical or gently tapering trunk often 7% in diameter, and 
straight ascending branches forming an oval crown; the gray-brows 
bark on the trunk deeply furrowed, the ridges flat-topped and fre 
quently anastomosing, that of the branches brown and smoother. — 
Twigs stout, somewhat flattened and quadrangular between the nodes, 
_ about 5™™ thick, the first season dark brown and velvety with a close 
pubescence, becoming gray-brown and glabrate the second year, and 
‘marked with a few small pale gray lenticels; the winter-buds dark 
brown, scurfy, short and blunt ; leaf-scars large, lunate or emi-Orbie 
lar. The leaves (2—3°" long) borne on stout spreading velvety-pubescent 
petioles, consist of 7-9 drooping leaflets which are oblong-ovate, 
a long, 4-5™ wide, rounded or subcordate at base, taper-pol 
oe apex, usually entire, thick and firm in texture, dark green and | 
on the upper surface, white and glaucous beneath, with brown | 
cence on-the midrib and primary veins ; petiole short, velvety-purs® 
The flowers appear in the vicinity of Raleigh, N. C., ite the firs 
the middle of April. The fruit, which is borne in loose Pp 
ters, is about 3 long, the cylindrical brown body about i 
a thick, the narrow ligulate wing about 4m wide ; TIP 
in October ; calyx glabrous, scarcely 1"™™ long, sharph. x 
‘The Catawba ash frequents the alluvial river banks" 
_ region of the Carolinas, growing with the black birch, red a 
8 : the white and green ashes, and the bitternut hickory; and a 
in the vicinity of Raleigh, N. C., at an altitude of 110” 
_ along the Catawba river and its tributaries, at an alin” 
closely related to the white ash, from which it is. SCparr 
foliage, glaucous white beneath, the soft pubescence of thes 
and the darker winter-buds; while from Fraxinus id ane: 
nda , which it closely resembles in foliage and pur 
y the shorter and smaller fruit and smaller calyx. — 
Tita HETEROPHYLLA Vent.—The northern 1” 
ally given in the mountains of Pennsylvania; tl 
