. 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. Texas Ash 807 ovate to oblong or ovate-orbicular, 5 to 8 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, long-stalked, strongly veined, toothed from the apex nearly to the base, and vary from abruptly pointed at the tip and wedge-shaped at the base to rounded or blunt at both ends; the upper surface is bright green and smooth, the under side paler and when young often hairy. The dioecious flowers appear with or just before the leaves of the
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. 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. Texas Ash 807 ovate to oblong or ovate-orbicular, 5 to 8 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, long-stalked, strongly veined, toothed from the apex nearly to the base, and vary from abruptly pointed at the tip and wedge-shaped at the base to rounded or blunt at both ends; the upper surface is bright green and smooth, the under side paler and when young often hairy. The dioecious flowers appear with or just before the leaves of the season in April or May in compact clusters. The sa- maras are narrowly oblanceolate, 2 to 3 cm. long, about 5 mm. wide, the wing decur- rent on the seed-bearing part to about the middle, and either blunt, pointed or notched at the apex.. Fig. 737. — Desert Ash. 17. TEXAS ASH—Fraxinus texana (A. Gray) Sargent Fraxinus americana texana A. Gray This tree inhabits bluffs and hillsides of central and western Texas. It some- times reaches a height of 16 meters and a trunk diameter of about i meter. The bark is thick, gray and rough, the young twigs round, and smooth or very nearly so from the first. The leaves have 5, or sometimes 7, long-stalked leaflets, which are ovate to oval in form, or sometimes broader above than below the middle; they are blunt or short-pointed, 5 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, nar- rowed or rounded at the base, bluntly-toothed or nearly en- tire-margined, dark green above, pale beneath. The dioecious flowers appear with Fig. 738. — Texas Ash. ^^^ leaves in early spring, the calyx of the pistillate ones being very deeply 4-lobed. The samaras are small, spatulate to oblong-spatulate, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, the blunt or notched wing nearly terminal on the plump marginless seed-bearing part, and cquahng it in length, or longer.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo