. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. A Staminate and a Pis- tillate Flower of Black Ash, Fraximis nigra : enlarged. Siamens.—Two, anthers large, oblong, dark purple, attached to the back of short filaments. Pistil.—Ovary superior, two-celled, narrowed into a long slender style, deeply divided at the apex into two broad, purple stigmas. Ovules two in each cell. Fj-uit.—Samaras, borne in panicles. Oblong- linear, an inch to an inch and a half long. Body surrounded by the wing, which is emarginate at apex. Seed solitary by ab
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. A Staminate and a Pis- tillate Flower of Black Ash, Fraximis nigra : enlarged. Siamens.—Two, anthers large, oblong, dark purple, attached to the back of short filaments. Pistil.—Ovary superior, two-celled, narrowed into a long slender style, deeply divided at the apex into two broad, purple stigmas. Ovules two in each cell. Fj-uit.—Samaras, borne in panicles. Oblong- linear, an inch to an inch and a half long. Body surrounded by the wing, which is emarginate at apex. Seed solitary by abortion. September, October. Cotyledons elliptical. The Black Ash is the slenderest of our forest trees, often reaching the height of seventy feet with a trunk whose diameter scarcely exceeds a foot. It is the most northern of American ashes flourishing on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Its inflorescence is polygamous, that is, staminate, pistillate, and perfect flowers may all be found on a single tree, although usual- ly the staminate flowers are borne on a sep- arate tree. In this species the flower is reduced to its lowest terms. Both calyx and corolla are wanting. Many flowers consist simply of two stamens sitting on the top of the flower stem, others are only a pistil. The Black Ash may be known among other ashes by the fact that its leaflets are sessile with the exception of the terminal one. Its samaras differ from those of the White Ash in that the wing entirely sur- rounds the body. The taste of the seed is aromatic. The wood is remarkable for its toughness and elasticity. The Indians especially used it in the manufacture of baskets, preferring ^™="" °^ '"^'='' *^''' ** Fraxinus nigra. It to every other. The trunk is often disfig- ured by knobs which are sometimes taken off and made into bowls which when polished show very odd undulations of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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