. Familiar trees and their leaves . Trees. THE ASH-LEAVED MAPLE AND THE ASHES. 24Y haps a slight downiness along the ribs. This tree may be easily distinguished from the other ashes by its broad, roundish, slightly toothed leaflets, and the elhptieal (not wedge-shaped) seeds. The water ash extends from southern Yirginia to central Florida; westward it reaches its limit in the valley of the Sabine River, Tex., and in south- eastern Arkansas. Black Ash. The black ash is a Fraxinus nigra, tall, slender tree which grows from 40 to TO feet, and occasionally, in the forest, 90 feet high; it has a da
. Familiar trees and their leaves . Trees. THE ASH-LEAVED MAPLE AND THE ASHES. 24Y haps a slight downiness along the ribs. This tree may be easily distinguished from the other ashes by its broad, roundish, slightly toothed leaflets, and the elhptieal (not wedge-shaped) seeds. The water ash extends from southern Yirginia to central Florida; westward it reaches its limit in the valley of the Sabine River, Tex., and in south- eastern Arkansas. Black Ash. The black ash is a Fraxinus nigra, tall, slender tree which grows from 40 to TO feet, and occasionally, in the forest, 90 feet high; it has a dark-gray trunk. Its leaves (twelve to sixteen inches long) are composed of from seven to eleven leaflets, which are joined to the main stem without a sign of a stemlet; they are distinctly water ATh. but irregularly toothed, and the stem is grooved; ia color they are a deeper green than those of the white ash, and pale below, with rusty hairs scattered over the whitish ribs. In the "White Mountain re- gion they do not appear until the latter part of May, and they turn brownish and drop after the first heavy frost in early October. In fact, I have noticed that the black ash sheds its leaves almost if not quite as soon as the butternut. The winged seed is blunt at. Carolina. 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 Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York : D. Appleton
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