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Fraxinus americana microcarpa Gray. 61 Smallseed White Ash. 



Range. — Northern and southeastern Alabama (Morgan, Madison, and Bar- 

 bour Counties) to middle Tennessee; northern Florida. 



NAME IN USE 



Smallseed White Ash 



*Fraxinus biltmoreana Beadle. 85 Biltmore White Ash. 



Range. — Western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia 

 and Alabama; westward to West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, northern Indiana, 

 Illinois (Richland County), central Tennessee, and southeastern Missouri. 



NAMES IN USE 



Ash (N. C). Biltmore Ash. 



White Ash (N. C). Biltmore White Ash. 



Fraxinns texensis (Gray) Sargent. Texas Ash. 



Range. — Northern, Central, and western Texas (from the vicinity of Dallas 

 to valley of Devil's River). 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Fraxinus americana var. 

 texensis Gray. 



NAME IN USE 



Mountain Ash (Tex.). Texas Ash. 



Fraxinus berlandieriana de Candolle. Mexican Ash. 



Range. — Western Texas (banks of San Antonio River, Nueces River, Rio 

 Blanco, and other streams to the lower Rio Grande); Edwards Plateau; Mexico. 



NAME IN USE 



Berlandier's Ash (lit.). Mexican Ash (lit.). 



*Fraxinns pennsylvanica Marshall. Red Ash. 



Range. — From Nova Scotia to central Georgia; westward to Manitoba, 

 South Dakota (Black Hills), eastern Nebraska, northeastern and eastern (border 

 counties) Kansas and northern Alabama (St. Clair and Cullman Counties). 



NAMES IN USE 



Red Ash (Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., R. I., Black Ash (N. J.). 



N. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., Md., W. Va., River Ash (R. I., Ont.). 



N. C, S. C, Fla., Ga., Ala., Miss., Bastard Ash (Vt.). 



La., Ky., Mo., 111., Kans., Nebr., Ash (Nebr.). 



Mich., Minn., Ontario). Piss Ash (Vt.). 



Brown Ash (Me.). Ash (White), trade. 



M This variety, apparently well marked by its small fruit, probably was first discovered about 1S75 in 

 northern Florida and in southeastern Alabama (Eufaula, Barbour County). Subsequently (1889-1892) it 

 was observed in northern Alabama and central Tennessee. All of the trees known to me bore only small 

 fruit. The fact that the trees were growing in dry rocky situations and were rather dwarfed, would seem 

 to account for the small fruit. The fruits of all of our ashes vary in size, and sometimes diminutive fruits 

 are found mingled with those of normal size on the same tree. This fact, however, would hardly justify 

 ignoring such a well-marked variety as the small-fruited white ash. 



The southeastern Alabama specimens were collected by A. H. Curtiss in 1875, and George Vasey, Bot- 

 anist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, published (Rept. Com. Agr. 1875, 168, 1876) this note con- 

 cerning them: "No. 211. Fraxinus curtiasi n. sp. (?).— Southern States. Mr. Curtiss found at Eufaula, 

 Ala., a large ash with remarkably small fruit." While there seems to be little doubt that this is the first 

 name applied to the small-fruited white ash, Dr. Vasey 's description is too meager to establish the fact. 



M The Biltmore Ash was until 1893 confused with the White Ash, to which it is very closely related. 



