. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Tkees gi? the ISToetiieen States and Canada. 389 This interesting and latlur uncommon Ash attains tlie height of 120 ft. or more, with trunk 3 or 4 ft. in diameter in the forests of the rich valleys of southern Indiana and Illinois, but elsewhere does not often surpass 75 ft. in height or 2% ft. in diameter of trunk. Its peculiar scaly bark is a fe^xture which at once distinguishes it in t'le eye of the woodman, and on very old trunks is especially intere
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Tkees gi? the ISToetiieen States and Canada. 389 This interesting and latlur uncommon Ash attains tlie height of 120 ft. or more, with trunk 3 or 4 ft. in diameter in the forests of the rich valleys of southern Indiana and Illinois, but elsewhere does not often surpass 75 ft. in height or 2% ft. in diameter of trunk. Its peculiar scaly bark is a fe^xture which at once distinguishes it in t'le eye of the woodman, and on very old trunks is especially interesting, the long loose plates giving it an even more s'.iaggy appearance than those of the Shag-bark Hickory. It inhabits mostly dry limestone ridgss and uplands, in company with the White Ash, , Chinquapin and other Oaks, Woolly , Red-bud, various Hickories, etc., and is occasionally found in the more moist bottom- lands. It is called the Blue Ash on account of a blue dye which may be made by mascerating the inner bark in water. The 4-angled nature of the twigs constitute a character by which it may be easily recognized. The wood is heavy, a cubic foot, when abso- lutely dry, weighing lbs., rather hard and strong and is used in the manufacture of floor- ing, agricultural implements, Leaves 8-12 in. long with 7-9 ovate-oblong to lanceolate short-petiolulate leaflets in. long, un- equally rounded or obtuse at base, long-acumi- nate, closely serrate, tomentose at first but at maturity glabrous, dark yellow green above, paler and glabrous or hairy-tufted in the axils of the veins beneath. Flowers perfect, in loose panicles: calvx almost obsolete : corolla none ; stamens 2 with dark purple oblong anther-cells. Fruit linear-oblong. 1-2 in. Ions, winged all around, parallel-veined and the body extending more than half way to the cmarginate apex. 1. .\. XI, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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