434 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



Carpinus Distegocarpiis Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVII. 144 (1913). 

 • Carpinus japonica J var. pleioneura Winkler in Bot. Jahrb. L. Suppl. 488 (1914). 



JAPAN. Hondo: prov. Mutsu, Aomori, May 20, 1904, U. Faurie (No. 5780; 



young fruits); prov. Shimotsuke, around Lake Chuzenji, woods, not common, alt. 



1400 m., May 24, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6738; tree 13-15 m. tall, girth 0.6-0.9 m., 



bark gray, fissured; flowers); same locality, common, May 26, 1914, E. H. ^\llson 



(No. 67-58; tree 10-13 m. tall, girth 0.9-1.8 m., bark gray; flowers); same locality, 



Bide of lake, not common, October 21, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7675; small tree, 



8-12 m. tall, girth 0.6-1 .5 m. ; fruits) ; same locality, common in forests, October 20, 



1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7692; small tree 7-13 m. tall, girth 0.6-1.5 m.; fruits); 



same prov., Nikko, July 29, 1882, K. Miyabe (unripe fruits) ; same locality, N. Mochi- 



zuki, August 30, 1904 (fruits); roadside, Nikko to Lake Chuzenji, October 25, 



1905, /. G. Jack (fruits); Nikko, Doenitz (type of var. cordifolia ex Winkler); 



prov. Kozuke, Mt. Asama, July 14, 1904, U. Faune (No. 5779; fruits); prov. 



Shinano, Fukushima to Otake, woods, common, June 10, 1914, E. H. Wilson 



(No. 6994; small tree 7-10 m. tall, girth 0.6-1.2 m.; young fruits); same prov., 



on Tsubakura-dake, woods, common, alt. 1100-1600 m., September 15, 1914, 



E. H. Wilson (No. 7454; tree 8-13 m. tall, girth 0.3-0.6 m.; fruits); same 



locality and date, E. H. Wilson (No. 7483; tree 10-15 m. tall, girth 0.45-0.9 m., 



fruits) ; prov. Musashi, Takao-san, common in woods and thickets, alt. 30-500 m., 



September 24, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7161; tree 7-12 m. tall, girth 0.6-0.75 m., 



head very bushy, fruits); same prov., Yokohama, 1862, C. Maxirnowicz (t>'pe of C. 



japonica, var., see below) ; same place. May and October 1862, C Maximowuz 



(co-type of var. pleioneura WmkXer)) prov. Sagami, Miyanoshita, O. Warburg (No. 



7756, type of var. pleioneura ex Winkler) ; same prov., Miyanoshita, Hakone Mts., 



August 25, 1802, C. S. Sargent (fruits); same prov., Hakone, 1864, TschonosH 



(flowers); prov. Kai, Kofu, (May?) and August 9, 1909 (ex Herb. Sakurai, fruits 



and flowers); *' in sylvis Takayu," June 1904, U. Faurie (No. 5774; young fruits); 



without exact locality, 1842, P. von Siebold (co-type, ex Herb. Zuccarini ; flowers and 



fruits); without locality and collector (ex Herb. Lugd. Bat.; flowers and leaves). 



Siebold & Zuccarini in the original description describe the leaves as " e basi cor- 

 data V. rotunda subobliqua," and 1 cannot see that Winkler's var. cordifolia repre- 

 sents even a good form, and it is the same with var. pleioneura^ as nearly every 

 specimen before me has leaves of both these varieties. A picture of tliis tree wall 

 be found under No. x203 of the collection of Wilson's Japanese photographs. 1 can 

 maintain only the following variety: 



Carpinus japonica, var. caudata Winkler in Bot. Jahrb. L. Suppl. 488 (1914). 

 A typo recedit foliis lanceolato-oblongis longius caudato-acuminatis grossiua 

 serratis. 



JAPAN. Hondo: prov. Shinano, Mt. Ontake, August 1905, U. Faurie (No. 

 6641; fruits). 



This may be only a form and needs further observation. 



Maximowicz (in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petershourg, XXVII. 533 [1882]) mentions 

 a C. japonica, var., "foliis paulo latioribus basi saepe distincte oblique^cordatis^ 

 ligula non semper a margine bracteae libera, saepius basi cum ilia connexa." 1 have 

 seen the type of this, and all the bracts I have been able to investigate had a free 

 ligula like the those of tj-pieal plants. Winkler states the same fact, and ^^ have 

 not seen any form which could be taken for a hybrid between C japonica and the 

 following species. They are both always very distinct and easy to recognize. 



2. Carpinus cordata Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 309 (1850). — Walpera, 

 Ann. 111. 379 (1S52-3). —Kegel in Mem, Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 7, IV. 



