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EBENACEAE 
Diospyros virginiana L. Persimmon 
Java Farm. Infrequent in old fields. Associate species: 
Quercus palustris, Acer rubrum, Liquidambar styraciflua. 
Ivy Neck. Infrequent in old fields as above. Also moderately 
abundant in canopy along drainage of Cheston Creek. Associate species 
there: Robinia pseudoacacia, Platanus occidentalis, Liquidambar 
styraciflua. 
Java Farm and Ivy Neck. Infrequent in salt marshes, apparently 
the less saline parts. Associate species: Panicum virgatum, Typha 
latifolia. Also on sandbars. Higman 116, 158, 233, 293, 383, 512, 746. 
OLEACEAE 
1. Plant a large tree; leaves pinnate; fruit a samara.... Fraxinus 
1. Plant a woody shrub or small tree; leaves simple; 
fruit a wingless capsule, drupe or berry. 
2. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. (Also, plant 
cultivated or escaped; flowers lilac-purple; 
leaves ovate, acuminate, entire, petioled, 
truncate or subcordate at base)......eseccecscevces Syringa 
2. Fruit a drupe or berry. 
3. Petals linear, nearly separate. Expected 
(Chionanthus). 
3. Petals united, funnelform corolla with broad 
lobes. (Also, panicles terminal, erect; 
stigma 2-lobed; berry 2-locular)................ Ligustrum 
Fraxinus 
1. Leaflets definitely on wingless petiolules. (Also, 
leaflets acuminate, with round or broadly acute base; 
samaras with a distinct flat wing and terete body). 
2. Leaflets abruptly acuminate, equilateral at base, 
oblong to ovate or obovate; samaras 3-5 cm. long, 
the wing 4-7 mm. broad, the body .7-1.6 cm. long. 
(Also, leaflets may be serrulate near summit)...... F. americana 
(Typical species has glabrous branchlets, pet- 
ioles, and lower surfaces of leaflets; var. 
biltmoreana has these pubescent and the 
leaflets white beneath). 
