. 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. 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
. 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. 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 calyx. The samaras are elliptic to ovate iG. 729.— aer s . ^^ obovate, usually sharp-pointed, to 5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide or less, the large veined wing extending all around the. 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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