100 Rhodora [JUNE 
the ovary, outside and on the margin lepidote; corolla rotate-campan- 
ulate, 2.5 cm. long and 3.5-4 cm. wide, pale rosy-purple or rarely 
whitish, without spots or only slightly spotted, outside glabrous or 
very sparingly lepidote, the lobes broadly ovate, about as long or 
slightly longer than the short gradually widened tube; stamens 10, 
slightly shorter than the corolla, with the filaments villous at the base 
and with pale-colored anthers; style glabrous, slightly shorter than 
the stamens, purple; ovary conic-oblong, lepidote. Capsule narrow 
oblong, 8-12 mm. long and 3-4 mm. thick, brown. 
Norra CaRoLINA: Tyron, April 20, 1897 (Biltmore Herb. No. 
4463); Roan Mtn., June 16, 1879 (A. Gray, C. S. Sargent, J. H. 
Redfield & Wm. W. Canby); Table Rock Mtn., Burke Co., July 2, 
1890, J. K. Small & A. A. Heller (No. 281, in part, the specimens in 
fruit); Macon Co., (T. G. Harbison, Nos. 119, 168); cultivated at 
Highlands, from Linville Mtn., May 20, 1911, (T. G. Harbison, 
No. 626); without precise locality, 1889 (F. Boynton).— At one time 
this species seems to have been cultivated in the Botanic Garden at 
Cambridge, for there is a specimen in the Gray Herbarium collected 
by C. E. Faxon, and dated June 18, without indication of the year, but 
probably collected about 1870. 
Rhododendron carolinianum is easily distinguished from R. minus 
by the short and wide tube of the corolla as long as, or slightly shorter 
than the lobes; the corolla is usually not spotted and is glabrous 
outside, the leaves are generally broader, less pointed and of thicker 
texture, the branches are shorter and stouter forming a compact, 
usually low shrub and the flowers appear several weeks earlier, before 
the young leaves are out. As an ornamental plant it is superior to 
R. minus and has proved perfectly hardy at the Arnold Arboretum 
and in General Weld's garden at Dedham where a large number of 
plants have been established for several years. 
Small gives for his R. punctatum, which, according to his descrip- 
tion, is identical with this species, a distribution ranging from North 
Carolina to Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, but I have seen it so 
far only from North Carolina. 
RHODODENDRON MINUS Michaux, Jour. d'Hist. Nat. I. 412. 1792, 
and Fl. Bor. Am. I. 258. 1803; Persoon, Syn. Pl. I. 478. 1805. 
Rhododendron punctatum Andrews, Bot. Rep. I. t. 36. 1798; Donn, 
Hort. Cantabr. 49. 1786 (nomen nudum); Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 
I. 298. 1814; Willdenow, Sp. Pl. II. 607. 1799; Ventenat, Descr. 
Jard. Cels. t. 15. 1800; Aiton, Hort. Kew. ed. 2, III. 51. 1811; 
Sims, Bot. Mag. XLIX. t. 2285. 1822; Watson, Dendr. Brit. 
t. 162 A. 1825; Chapman, Fl. South. U.S. 266. 1860; Gray, Syn. Fl. 
N. Am. II. 1, 42. 1878. Rhododendron Cuthberti Small, Torreya, 
IL. 9. 1902, and Fl. Southeast. U. S. 885. 1903. 
