. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 737. — Desert Ash. 17. TEXAS ASH—Fraxinus texana (A. Gray) Sargent Fraxinus americana texana A. Gray This tree inhabits bluffs and hillsides of central and western Texas. It some- times reaches a height of 16 meters and a trunk diameter of about i meter. The bark is thick, gray and rough, the young twigs round, and smooth or very nearly so from the first. The leaves have 5, or sometimes 7, long-stalked leaflets, whic
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Fig. 737. — Desert Ash. 17. TEXAS ASH—Fraxinus texana (A. Gray) Sargent Fraxinus americana texana A. Gray This tree inhabits bluffs and hillsides of central and western Texas. It some- times reaches a height of 16 meters and a trunk diameter of about i meter. The bark is thick, gray and rough, the young twigs round, and smooth or very nearly so from the first. The leaves have 5, or sometimes 7, long-stalked leaflets, which are ovate to oval in form, or sometimes broader above than below the middle; they are blunt or short-pointed, 5 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, nar- rowed or rounded at the base, bluntly-toothed or nearly en- tire-margined, dark green above, pale beneath. The dioecious flowers appear with Fig. 738. — Texas Ash. ^^^ leaves in early spring, the calyx of the pistillate ones being very deeply 4-lobed. The samaras are small, spatulate to oblong-spatulate, to cm. long, the blunt or notched wing nearly terminal on the plump marginless seed-bearing part, and cquahng it in length, or Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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