6 OLEACEJE. Fraxinus. 



cent beneath : fruit linear-oblong or cuneate-oblong (one or two inches long, 4 to 7 lines 

 wide), not stipitate and oftener not narrowed at base, lightly several-nerved on both faces, 

 somewhat twisted when mature ; the minute calyx at length deciduous or obsolete. — 

 Fl. ii. 225 ; Michx. f . Sylv. t. 123. — Dry rich woods, Michigan to Tennessee. 



+- -i— Lateral leaflets sessile : common petiole angled : anthers short-oblong. 

 = Calyx small, persistent. 



P. Oregana, Nutt. Tree of middle or ample size, with wood like that of White Ash, 

 the foliage and shoots villous-pubescent, at least when young : leaflets 5 to 7, lanceolate- 

 oblong to oval, entire or nearly so (2 to 4 inches long), veiny, the upper surface soon 

 glabrous : fruit with nearly clavate and slightly compressed body, the margined edges gradu- 

 ally widened upwards into the longer oblanceolate wing (of an inch or less in length). — 

 Sylv. iii. 59, t. 99 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 472. F. pubescens, var., Hook. Fl. ii. 51. F. latifolia, 

 Benth. Sulph. 33. — Along streams, Washington Terr., near the coast, to California. 

 = = Calyx wanting : the flowers wholly naked. 



F. sambucifolia, Lam. (Black Ash.) Small or middle-sized tree, with very tough 

 and fissile wood ; glabrous, except bearded hairs along the midribs beneath : leaflets 7 to 

 11, green and of similar hue both sides, oblong-lanceolate from a roundish base, gradually 

 acuminate, finely and acutely serrate (3 to 5 inches long), the pinnate primary veins of 

 numerous pairs : fruit lanceolate-oblong or linear-oblong, flat throughout, finely nervose, 

 the acutely margined body of the same breadth as the wing. — Diet. ii. 549; Muhl. I.e.; 

 Michx. f . Sylv. t. 122 ; Emerson, Rep. Trees, ed. 2, ii. 381, t. 13. F. nigra, Marsh. Arbust. 

 51. — Swamps and wet banks, Nova Scotia to Wisconsin, the mountains of Virginia and 

 Kentucky. Bruised foliage exhales the odor of Elder. Remarkable for the total absence 

 of calyx. 



2. FORESTlfiE-A, Poir. (M. Forestier, a French physician.) — Shrubs 

 (North American and W. Indian) ; with opposite simple leaves, inconspicuous 

 flowers, in early spring, from imbricated-scaly axillary buds, and small dark-colored 

 drupes ; the putamen thin. Fascicles or panicles very short, few-flowered ; the 

 staminate sessile and in a sessile globular scaly glomerule : the bracts or bud-scales 

 deciduous. Branches minutely warty. — Tulasne in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 265. 

 Adelia, Michx. Borya, Willd. Bigelovia, Smith. Piptolepis, Benth. 



* Leaves membranaceous and deciduous, not porulose, mostly minutely serrate : flowers from axils 

 of the preceding year. 



F. acuminata, Poir. Shrub somewhat spinescent, 5 to 10 feet high, glabrous through- 

 out : leaves ovate-lanceolate and ovate-oblong, conspicuously acuminate, slender-petioled, 

 1-J to 4 inches long : fertile flowers several in a panicle : calyx obsolete or caducous : drupe 

 (when forming fusiform acuminate, and somewhat arcuate) elongated-oblong. — Diet. 

 Suppl. ii. 664 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 363, excl. var. Adelia acuminata, Michx. Fl. ii. 

 225, t. 48. Borya acuminata, Willd. Spec. iv. 711. Forestiera ligustrina, Willd. ex char. & 

 hab. ; Gray, Man. ed. 2, 358, not Poir. — Wet and shady river-banks, W. Illinois and Mis- 

 souri to W. Georgia and Texas. The habitat of this and of F. ligustrina must have been 

 transposed in Michaux's Flora. 



F. Neo-Mexicana, Gray. Shrub 6 to 10 feet high, glabrous : leaves spatulate-oblong, 

 obtuse or obtusely acuminate, short-petioled, obtusely or obsoletely serrulate, an inch 

 long : fertile flowers in sessile fascicles : calyx minute and rather persistent : drupe obtuse, 

 short-oblong or ovoid. — Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 63. F. acuminata, var. parvifolia, Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. iv. 364. — New Mexico, and adjacent borders of Texas and Colorado, Fendkr, 

 Wright, Palmer, Brandegee. 



Var. Arizonica. Young shoots and foliage soft-pubescent; only earliest leaves 

 seen, those entire. — Near Prescott, Arizona, Palmer. 



F. ligustrina, Poir. More or less pubescent with short spreading hairs : leaves obovate 

 or oblong with narrowed base, short-petioled, appressed-serrulate, rounded at apex, usually 

 an inch long : fertile flowers in simple fascicles : calyx almost obsolete : drupe short-ovoid, 

 sessile : putamen smooth and even. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. iv. 364, partly. Adelia Hgus- 



