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()lea Americana. Devil-wood; American Olive. South ern States. Thia is a small evergreen tree, with thick, leathery leaveo, and small, white, fragrant flowers. It is related to the olive-tree of the eastern world, but its fruit has no value. It is impossible to split, and hence the vulgar name of Devil-w. od.
Chionanthus Virginica. Fringe-tree. Middle and Sontherrl State& Fraxinue Americana. White Aah. Eastern United Statrs. A large and valuable tree ranging over the eastern portion of the United States. The wood ia tough and elastic, and much employed in various manufactures. It io a handeorne and ornamental tree.
F. pubescens. Red Aah. Eastern United Stater A smaller tree than the preceding, perhaps more common. The wood is• said to he equally as valuable aa that of the White Aah.
F. viridis. Green Ash. Western States. A middle sized tree, of vigorous and rapid growth, and the wood has the same oualities as the preceding.
F. sambucifolia. Black Ash. Northern and Western States. A laren tree, nsually growing in moist soil, and heuce often called Swamp Ash. The wood is more elastic than that of any other species. It splits easily into thin, narrow atrips. which are used for making baskets and hoops 'for bat rels.
F. guadrangulata. Blue Ash. 'Western States. Thia speciea ia not fonnd in the Atlantic States. It is found from Ohio to Wisconsin a itd southwaid to Kentucky and Tennessee. It is a large tree, growing from sixty to seventy feet high, v. ith a diameter of tuo feet or more.
The wood is rmite as valuable as that of the White Ash, and is said to be much more durable when exposed to the weather; hence its value for fence-rails, posts, etc.
F. platycarpa. Carolina Water Ash. Southern States. This epecies grows in swamps or marshy hauks of rivers. It is nanallypventy-five or thirty,feet high, hat sometimea becomes a large tree. The wood is remarkably light and soft, and probably has no economic value.
F. Curtissi. Southern States. Mr. Curtiss found at Eufaula, Ala., a large Ash with remarkably small fruit. This species is provisionally called F. Curtissi. It requires f nrther iovestigation.
F. Oregona. Oregon Ash. California and Oregon. The common ash of the Pacific coast. It grows sixty to seveuty feet high. Is of equal value with the White Ash of the Eastern States.
F. dipetola. California Flowering Ash. California and Oregon.
P. pistaciValia. Texas and westward.
7:enemata. Single-leaf Ash. Utah and Arizona. This ash is seldom more than a ahrub ten to fifteen feet tigh, growing, iu ravines among the foot-hills of southern Utah and Arizona. The leaves are simple, not pinnate, as in the other species.
F. coriacea. Thick-leaved Ash. ttah and Arizona. A smallish tree, with thick, leathery leaves, growing in aonthern Utah and Arizona.
Forestiera acuminate. Southwestern States. A large ahrnh or small tree, of no economic value.
F. ligustrina. Southern States.