SMALL-LEAVED ASH. 
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as timber, and is justly considered as one of the best in the 
territory. 
An opinion prevails in Oregon among the hunters and 
Indians, that poisonous serpents are unknown in the same 
tract of country where this Ash grows, and stories are 
related of a stick of the Black Ash causing the Rattle 
Snake to retire with every mark of fear and trepidation, 
and that it would sooner go into the fire than creep over it. 
It is singular to remark, that the same superstition in 
regard to the European Ash, prevailed even in the time of 
Pliny the Natural Historian. 
Plate XCIX. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The germ. b. The fruit, c. A variety 
with lanceolate fruit. 
SMALL-LEAVED ASH. 
FRAXINUS pauciflora , ramis glabris gracilibus , foliolis qninis ad sep- 
tenis lanceolatis remotis longe petiolatis utrinque acuminatis leviter 
serratis glaberrimis , racemis fructiferis simplicibus , paucifloris . 
This remarkable species of Ash was collected in Georgia, 
in the neighbourhood of “ Trader’s Hill” by the late inde- 
fatigable and excellent botanist Doctor Baldwyn. Speci- 
mens exist in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia. It appears to have been observed 
by no other botanist. 
The character of the tree and the quality of its timber 
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