122 TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 
4 nearly equal wings. A small, beautiful tree, 10 to 30 ft. high, mora 
hardy than Halesia diptera, and therefore cultivated occasionally 
throughout. Wild in Virginia and south. 
Genus 59. SYMPLOCOS. 
Shrubs or small trees, with leaves 
furnishing a yellow dye. 
Symplocos tinctéria, L’Her. (Horse- 
sUGAR. SWEETLEAF.) Leaves simple, alter- 
nate, thick, 3 to 5 in. long, elongate-oblong, 
acuminate, nearly entire, almost persistent, 
pale beneath, with minute pubescence, sweet- 
tasting. Flowers 6 to 14, in close-bracted, 
L axillary clusters, 5-parted, sweet-scented, 
eB yellow; in early spring. Fruit a dry drupe, 
ovoid, 44 in. long. A shrub or small tree, 
8. tinctdria. 10 to 20 ft. high. Delaware and south. 
OrpER XXIX. OLEACEZ. (Otive Fatty.) 
An order of trees and shrubs, mainly of temperate re- 
gions. 
Genus 60. FRAXINUS. 
Trees with petioled, opposite, odd-pinnate leaves (one 
cultivated variety has simple leaves). Flowers often in- 
conspicuous, in large panicles before the leaves in spring. 
Fruit single-winged at one end (samara or key-fruit), in 
large clusters; ripe in autumn. Some trees, owing to the 
flowers being staminate, produce no fruit. Wood light- 
colored, tough, very distinctly marked by the annual 
layers. The leaves appear late in the spring, and fall 
early in the autumn. 
* Flowers with white corolla; a cultivated small tree .......... 8 
* Flowers with nocorolla.  (A.) 
A. Leaves pinnate; leaflets petiolate; calyx small, persistent on 
the fruit. (B.) 
B. Fruit broad-winged, 34 in. wide. Svuth................ 5. 
B. Wings much narrower. (C.) 
