OLIVE FAMILY. 667 
Tree little above medium size, from 40 to nearly 60 feet high and over a foot in 
diameter, with stout branches and spreading branchlets. 
Distinguished from F. americana by the velvety twigs and petioles, clove-brown 
buds, and the elliptical body of the large samara. 
Carolinian area. North Carolina and northern Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region; Coosa hills, rocky creek banks. Cullman County. 
St. Clair County, near Ashville. Jackson County, Sand Mountain (Biltmore Herb.), 
from 700 to 900 feet altitude. Local and scarce, individuals occurring singly. 
ae tree on Rines Creek, Cullman County, fully 16 inches iu diameter and 60 feet 
igh. 
Economic uses: Timber tree. 
Type locality: “Biltmore, N.C.” (Altitude 1,900 feet.) 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Frazinus lanceolata Borkh. Handb. Forst. Bot. 1:826. 1800. GREEN ASH. 
Fraxinus viridis Michx. Hist. Arb. Am. 3:115. #. 10. 1813. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 336. Chap. FI. 370. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 259. Gray, 
Syn. FL.N. A. 2, pt.1:75. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 6:5, t. 272. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario to Saskatchewan; New Eugland west 
to Minnesota, the eastern ranges of the Rocky Mountains, Montana, and Utah; 
southward to Florida and the Gulf States, extending to Texas and eastern and 
northern Arizona. 
ALABAMA: Throughout the State. In low forests subject to overflow. Flowers 
March, April; fruit ripe July. A trec of medium to large size, of best development 
in the alluvial forests of the lower Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, where trees 
over 2 feet in diameter are not infrequently met with. 
Economic uses: Timber tree; important for lumber and fuel. 
Type locality : 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Fraxinus caroliniana Mill. Gard. Dict. ed.8,no.6. 1786. Watrr AsH. Por AsH. 
Frazinus platycarpa Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 2: 256. 1803. 
Ell. Sk. 2:673. Gray, Man. ed. 6,336. Chap. F1.370. Gray, Syn. F1.N. A. 2, pt. 1: 
75. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 6:35, t. 274. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southeastern Virginia along the coast tu 
southern Florida, west to Louisiana and southern Arkansas. 
ALABAMA. Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Deep swamps of alluvial forests, wet 
shaded banks of pine-barren streams. Tuscaloosa, Clarke, Baldwin, and Mobile 
counties. Flowers February (16th), fruit shed in October. Frequent. Tree below 
medium size, rarely over 30 feet high and 12 inches in diameter. Frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘Raised from seeds which were sent from Carolina in the year 
1824, by Mr. Catesby.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mobr. 
Fraxinus quadrangulata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 255. 1803. BLUE ASH. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 336. Chap. Fl. 370. Gray, Syn. Fl. N.A.2,pt.1:75. Sargent, 
Silv. N. A. 6: 35, #. 263. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Ontario, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, 
and the mountains of North Carolina. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Dry limestone hills and cedar brakes. Madison 
County, Huntsville. Jackson County, Scottsboro. Occurring only on the northern 
declivity of the Tennessee Valley, greatly reduced in size, scarcely over 30 feet high, 
and 6 to 8 inches in diameter. Not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Kentucky et Tennassée.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
ADELIA P. Br. Hist. Jam. 361. 1756. 
(Fortstiera Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 2: 664. 1811.) 
Ten species. West Indies, warmer North America, 8. 
Adelia acuminata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 225, ¢.48. 1803. Swamp PRIVET. 
Forestiera acuminata Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 2: 664. 1811. 
Ell. Sk. 2:675. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 336. Chap. F1.370. Gray, Syn. FIN. A. 2, pt.1: 
76. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 260. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, southern Illinois, southern Missouri, 
and Arkansas, south to Florida, west to Texas and the Colorado Valley. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Coast plain. Miry banks of rivers. Mobile 
County, Mount Vetvon Baldwin County, Stockton. Flowers March, April; fruit 
ripe, not frequent, September, October, black. 
