. 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. Fringe Tree 813 III. FRINGE TREE GENUS OmONAMTHUS LINN^US Species Ohionanthus viiginica Linnaeus HIS beautiful tree or shrub is indigenous from southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania to Florida and westward to Teimessee, Arkansas and Texas; it is so well known as to have received many common names, such as Old man's beard, White fringe, American fringe. Flowering ash, and Snowflower tree; its maximum height is
. 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. Fringe Tree 813 III. FRINGE TREE GENUS OmONAMTHUS LINN^US Species Ohionanthus viiginica Linnaeus HIS beautiful tree or shrub is indigenous from southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania to Florida and westward to Teimessee, Arkansas and Texas; it is so well known as to have received many common names, such as Old man's beard, White fringe, American fringe. Flowering ash, and Snowflower tree; its maximum height is 10 meters, with a trunk diameter up to dm. The trunk is short; the branches are stout and ascending. The bark is 6 to 12 mm. thick, fissured into small, thin, close scales of a reddish brown color. The twigs are stout, slightly angled, green, usually hairy, becoming round, smooth, and light brown. The buds are ovoid, sharp-pointed, about 3 mm. long. The stalked leaves are thickish, oval, oblong-elliptic or ovate, 5 to 15 cm. long, rounded, sharp or taper-pointed at each end, yellowish green at first, becoming darker green and shining above, paler and smooth except along the prominent venation beneath; they become bright yellow and fall in the early autumn. The fragrant flowers appear from April to June, dependent upon latitude; they are perfect or polygamous, in axillary, hairy, nodding panicles i to 2 dm. long, bracted at each division, the ultimate divi-. FlG. 745. — Fringe Tree. sions being 3-flowered; the very small calyx is green, smooth, cup-shaped, deeply 4-lobed; the corolla is to cm. long, its sharp, linear lobes slightly spreading and joined into a very short tube at the base; the 2, rarely 4, stamens are joined to the base of the corolla-tube, their filaments short and included, the anthers light yellow; the ovary is 2-celled; style short, stout, with a 2-lobed stigma; ovules 2 in each cavity. The fruit, borne in loose clusters, is oblong or oval-oblong
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