. 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. Water Ash 8oi Florida, and also in Cuba, if the very similar Fraxinus cubensis of Grisebach proves to be the same species, and perhaps also in Louisiana. The bark is gray and scaly, the branchlets Ught gray, round and smooth. The 5 or 7 ovate to oblong-lanceolate leaflets are all stalked, somewhat toothed or entire-margined, and usually rather long-pointed. The flowers are dioecious. The samaras are spatulate, the rather
. 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. Water Ash 8oi Florida, and also in Cuba, if the very similar Fraxinus cubensis of Grisebach proves to be the same species, and perhaps also in Louisiana. The bark is gray and scaly, the branchlets Ught gray, round and smooth. The 5 or 7 ovate to oblong-lanceolate leaflets are all stalked, somewhat toothed or entire-margined, and usually rather long-pointed. The flowers are dioecious. The samaras are spatulate, the rather firm wing rounded or notched at the top, about twice as long as the seed-bearing part and decurrent along it as a narrow mar- gin to its base or just above. The wood is light, weak, and of no com- mercial value. The tree has been redescribed and illustrated by Professor Sargent as Fraxi- nus Fig. 728. — Southern Water Ash. 8. WATER ASH —Frarinns caroliniana Miller The Water ash grows in lagoons and swamps from southeastern Virginia to Florida in the Atlantic coastal plain, and extends westward through the Gulf States to Texas and southern Arkansas. It is seldom more than 12 meters high and the trunk not more than 3 dm. thick. The bark is light gray, and only 3 or 4 mm. in thickness, peehng off in scales. The young twigs are round, and slightly reddish hairy, but they early become smooth and gray. The leaves are some- what hairy when they first unfold, but be- come nearly or quite smooth, or sometimes remain hairy on the under side; they have 5, 7 or rarely 9, oblong, ovate or oblong- lanceolate leaflets, which are either toothed or entire-margined, pointed, or rather blxmt, distinctly stalked and 5 to 15 cm. long. The clusters of flowers appear early in the spring at the leaf scars of the pre- vious year; the staminate and pistillate flowers are borne on different trees, the former with a very minute calyx, the latter with a rather large and sharply 4-toothed ca
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