4:5*^ FLORA OF TEXAS. 



CHIONANTHUS, L. Frikge-tree. 



Calyz small, 4-cleft; corolla wheel-shaped, 4-parted, 

 with long and linear lobes ; stamens 2-4, included; style 

 very short; stigma notched; drupe fleshy, 1-seeded. — A 

 shrtiby with oblong entire deciduous leaves, and delicate 

 white flowers in slender axillary panicles, appearing with 

 the leaves. 



C. ViRGiJ^-iCA, L. Light soil. April and May. Shrtih 

 6°-10° high ; leaves smooth or pubescent, narrowed into a 

 petiole ; panicles longer than the leaves, leafy-bracted ; 

 flowers on slender drooping pedicels ; corolla-lobes linear, 

 1' long; drupe o\o\&, purple. Near Houston on Buffalo 

 Bayou. 



FEAXINUS, Tourn. Ash. 



Floivers dioecious and (in our species) apetalous; calyx 

 4-lobed or toothed, minute, sometimes wanting; stamens 

 2-4 ; filaments shorter than the large anthers ; stigma 

 2-cleft; fruit (samara) dry, winged above, 1-2-seeded; co- 

 tyledons elliptical ; radcile slender. — Trees ; leaves peti- 

 oled, odd-pinnate, deciduous. 



* Fruit naked and terete or barely margined and 2-edged at the base, winged above; 

 leaflets 7-9, stalked. 



F. American^a, L. ( Wliite Ash.) Branches and petioles 

 smooth ; leaflets ovate-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acumi- 

 nate, entire, or slightly serrate above, smooth on the upper 

 surface, pubescent or glaucous beneath ; fruit terete, 

 striate, dilated at the apex into a cuneate-linear or lanceo- 

 late obtuse or notched wing. — A large tree; fruit \^'\oi\g. 



F. PUBESCENS, Lam. {Red Ash.) Bi-anchlets anH peti- 

 oles velvety-pubescent; leaflets oblong-ovate or ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, gradually acuminate, bright green above, pale and 

 more or less pubescent beneath ; fruit acute at the base, 



