Handbook of Trees of the Noetheen States and Canada. 399 



The Pumpkin Ash is a large tree as found 

 in the swampy bottom-lands of eastern 

 Arkansas and southeastern Missouri, where it 

 attains the height of lUO ft. or more, with 

 columnar trunk 3 or 4 ft. in diameter above 

 its wide base. 



It inhabits deep swamps, the banks of 

 sloughs and streams of eastern Arkansas and 

 soutlieastern Missouri, and of the valley of the [ 

 Appalachicola Kiver in western Florida. Jt j 

 occupies these localities, inundated during a 

 considerable portion of the year, in company 

 with the Bald Cypress, Leitneria, Cotton an;l 

 Water Gums, Planer-tree, Swamp Poplar, 

 Water Locust, etc. The singular name. 

 Pumpkin Ash, by which it is popularly known. 

 i,^ said to be given to it on account of its wide 

 swollen base A\iiich gives it stability in the 

 soft miry ooze in which it grows. The oc- 

 currence of the Pumpkin Ash, Leitnaria and 

 certain other Floridian species in southeastern 

 Jlissouri and eastern Arkansas indicates an 

 interesting extension of the Floridian Dora 

 into those regions which is noteworthy, espe- 

 cially as few, if any, of these species have been 

 found in the intermediate regions. 



Leaves larg:e. 0-18 in. long, leaflets 7-0. lanceo- 

 late or ovato-lanceolate and usually inequilateral, 

 entire or nearly so, rounded or cnneate at bnse. 

 acuminate, tiairy toraentose at first, at maturity 

 dark green and nearly glabrous above, pubescent 

 beneath ; branchlets and all new growths densely 

 pubescent. Floircrft dioecious, the staminate with 

 a campanulate oliscurely 4-toothed calyx ; sta- 

 mens 2-:! : pistillate cal.vx larger, deeply 4-lobed, 

 accrescent and persistent. Fruit: samaras, 

 linear-olilong. 2-:: in. long with wing decurrent to 

 helnw the middle of the terete thick seed-bearing 

 riortiun. 



