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underneath with a thick bro^-nish tomentum, and by the more loosely arranged 

 fruits, which do not form dense headlike catkins as in O. Davidiana Decaisne. 



OSTRYA Scop. 



Ostrya japomca Sargent in Garden & Forest, VI. 383, fig. 58 (1893); 

 For, FL Jap, 66, t. 22 (1894). — Shirasawa in Bull. Agric, Coll IL 265, 

 t. 13, fig. 15-16 (Jap. Laubh. Wint. t. 9, fig. 15-16) (1895); Icon. Ess, 

 For. Jap. I. 49, t. 25, fig. 1-14 (1900). — Henry in Elwes & Henry, 

 Trees Gr. BriL & Irel III. 544, t. 201, fig. 10 (1908).— Nakai in Tokyo 

 Bat. Mag, XXIX, 37 (1915). 



Ostrya virginica Maximowicz in Mel. Biol. XI. 317 (non Willdenow) (1881); in 



BuU. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg XXVII. 537 (1882). 

 Ostrya virginica^ var. japonica Maximowicz ex Sargent, Garden & Forest, \ 1. 



383 (pros^Tion.) (1893); For. Fl. Jap. 66 (pro synon.) (1894). — Burkill in 



Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 503 (1899). 

 Ostrya carjnnifolia Franchet in Jour, de Bot. Xlll. 204 (non Scopoh) (1899). 

 Ostrya ostrya, var. japonica Schneider, lU. Handh. Laubholzk. I. 142, fig. 7o r 



(1904). 

 Ostrya italica, subspec. virginiana Winkler in Engler, Pflanzenr, IV.-61, 2J 



(1904), quoad plantam e Japonia et China. 

 Ostrya italica, var. virginiana Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 2, 22 (1912). 



Western Szech'uan: northeast of Tachien-lu, Ta-p'ao-shan, 

 woods, alt. 2200-2800 m., July 3, 1908 (No. 2215; tree 10-17 m. tall, 

 girth 0.9-1.8 m., bark rough and scaly; fruiting branchlets). Western 

 Hupeh: Fang Hsien, woods, not common, alt. 2300-2500 m., Sep- 

 tember 1907 (No. 2220; tree 8 m. tall; fruiting branchlets); same 

 locality, A. Henry (No. 6581; fruiting branchlets). 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea: Quaelpaert, forests, alt. 1700m., Taquet 

 (No. 4439; ripe fruits). 



JAPAN. Hokkaido : prov. Ishikari, Sapporo, September 1885, and October 1, 

 1910, K. Miyabe (sterile); same locahty, October 1891, Y. Tokubuchi (fruits); 

 same locality, hills, moist soil with Quercus, Aralia, Acanthopanax, September 18, 

 1892, C. S. Sargent (tree 13-27 m. tall, girth 5.4 m,; sterile); same locahty, August 



23, 1905, J. G. Jack (ripe fruits); same locality, July 26, 1904 (ex Herb. Sakur.u; 

 fruiting branchlets). Hondo: prov. Musashi, Takao-san, April 25, 1907 (ex 

 Herb. Sakurai; flowers); prov. Shinano, Kisogawa, rare, April? and August 1907 

 (ex Herb. Sakurai; flowers and fruits); prov. Shimotsuke, Lake Chuzenji, August 



24, 1901, N. Mochizuki (fruiting branchlet); prov. Kii, Koya-san, ascent of moun- 

 tain, only one seen, October 2, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7846; small tree, 5 m. tall; 

 sterile) . 



This species is closely related to the species of eastern America and of Europe, and 

 it needs further investigation to decide whether these tliree trees are to be treated 

 as subspecies or as distinct species. So far as I can see without having carefully 

 studied all the specimens from America and Europe, the Asiatic species seems to be 

 somewhat intermediate between them. 



