The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . h. The fruit, c. A variety ivith lanceolate fruit. SMALL-LEAVED ASH. Fraxinus PAUGIFLORA. Hauiis gluhris gracilibus, foliolis quinis ad scp-ienis lanceolatis remotis lonc/e jJetiolatis utrinque acuminatis leriter serratisglaberriniis, racemis fructiferis simplicibus, jpaucifloris. This remarkable si^ecies of
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . h. The fruit, c. A variety ivith lanceolate fruit. SMALL-LEAVED ASH. Fraxinus PAUGIFLORA. Hauiis gluhris gracilibus, foliolis quinis ad scp-ienis lanceolatis remotis lonc/e jJetiolatis utrinque acuminatis leriter serratisglaberriniis, racemis fructiferis simplicibus, jpaucifloris. This remarkable si^ecies of Ash was collected in Georgia, inthe neighborhood of Traders Hill, by the late indefatigableand excellent botanist. Dr. Baldwin. Specimens exist in theHerbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of appears to have been observed by no other botanist. Tlie cliaracter of the tree and the quality of its tim1)er areuiilCiiow n, l)iit tlie figure and description may probably serve torecognise it and lead to further inquiry. Jlie l)raiielies are smooth and remarkably slender, the budssmall, yellowish browu, and pubescent. The leaves are half aloot or a little more in length, with five to seven lanceolateleaflets, wliich aie two to two and a half inches long by about IM (. Fraxinus Pijucillorus SnuiJ^ i/><ired ^ish Freii^ <i p^f/is ///?///.«?. THREE-WINGED ASH. 127 three-quarters of an inch wide, acuminated ^vith a slender point,and much attenuated below, with rather long pedicels; they areopaque, smooth and green on both surfaces, except a slight traceof pubescence alongside of the midrib, and slenderl}- serrated onthe margin; the petioles are remarkably long, and the distancebetween the pairs of leaves very great; but the most character-istic distinction claimed for this species is in the inflorescence ofthe fruit-bearing plant, which consists of two or three remotepairs of racemes, each being quite simple or unbrauched, terete,and producing only two or thr
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