1904] Rehder, — Lists of New PIngland Plants, — XIV 59 



good photograph of Michaux's type which enabled me, almost as well 

 as if I had had the specimen itself, to study the characters of V. 

 molle ; a close examination made it soon apparent that it could not be 

 identical with V. molle of Gray, as the petioles are stipulate and the 

 venation and serration of the leaves perceptibly different. Of the 

 species with stipulate petioles V. Demeln'o/iis seemed to be the most 

 similar and indeed its deeply cordate leaves and their venation and 

 serration agrees perfectly with Michaux's specimen ; also Michaux's 

 description, especially as regards "fructibus oblongo-ovatis " and 

 "cortice quotannis laceratim deciduo " fits V. Demetrionis exactly^ 

 but not at all V. molle of Gray. Michaux also apparently observed 

 the stipules and for this reason characterized it as a "V. Opuhis 

 foliis indivisis." To make the evidence conclusive the V. molle has 

 been recently rediscovered at the type locality, Danville. Kentucky,, 

 by Mr. Boynton of Baltimore and Mr. C. I). Beadle remarked in a 

 letter regarding this discovery that the specimen look much like V. 

 Demetrionis and that Michaux's description likewise agrees very well 

 with that species. A specimen which he sent a short time afterwards 

 to the Arnold Arboretum leaves no doubt that Boynton's specimen 

 is identical as well with Michaux's V. molle as with V. Demetrionis. 



Viburnum imACTEAXUAr, Rehder in Sargent's Trees ^: Shrubs i : 

 135, pi. 68 (1903). V. molle, Chapman, Fl. ed. 3. 190 (1897), not 

 Michaux. 



This species is known only from the cliffs of the Coosa River near 

 Rome, Georgia. It differs from V. molle chiefly in its conspicuous 

 bracts, the semiorbicular calyx teeth, the shorter petioles, the remotely 

 and shallowly dentate leaves and the close bark. 



Viburnum semitomentosum, comb. nov. V. dentatian /? semi- 

 tomentosum, Michaux, Fl. 1:179 (1803). V. dentation /3? scabrcl- 

 lion, Torrey cV- Gray, F^l. 2:16 (1841). V. scabrellum. Chapman, 

 Fl. 172 (i860). V. molle, Gray, Man. ed. 5, 206 (1867); Syn. Fl. 

 I, 2:11, in part (1884) ; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. 3:231, in part, fig. 

 3440 (1898); Dippel, Handb, Laubholzk. i : 184, in part (1889); 

 not Michaux. /'. molle, vwr.l tonieniosum, C^hapman, Fl. ed. 3, 190 

 (1897). 



This species is distributed from Kentucky to Florida and Texas. 

 It differs from V. venosum by the thinner and fewer veins, the shal- 

 lower often crenate dentation with fewer and larger obtusish teeth, 

 the oval or ovate rarely orbicular leaves generally truncate at the 



