AILANTHUS OVATA Lesq.
AILANTHUS OVATA Lesq., Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 254,
Pl. LI, figs. 7, 8, 1883.
The type specimens only are known. I have examined
these specimens, both being preserved on the same piece of matrix. The
figure of the branch shows the buds much clearer than they appear on the
specimen, but it is perhaps correctly referred. The samaras are
described by Lesquereux as being rounded at one end and acute at the
other. An examination shows that the bluntness described is due to the
ends of one or two being broken or covered by matrix, while in one
well preserved both ends are similar and acute.
Locality.Bridge Creek, Grant County,
Oregon. Collected by C. D. Voy. (Types in Mus. Univ. Cal., Nos. 1765,
1766.)