208 Rhorloni [September 



Co., 1899, E. N. Plank (N). Louisiana: deciduous woodland, 

 Haines, West Felicia Parish, August 23, 1912, F. J( . Pennell (N). 

 Oklahoma: at edge of thicket, near Mannsville, Johnston Co., 

 Florence Griffith, distributed by 6. W. Stevens, no. 3,447 (G). 



4. H. ARBORB8CEN8 L., var. OBLONGA T. & G., f. sterilis (T. &G.) 

 comb, now, //. arborescent L., 8 sterilis T. & G., Fl. N. Am. i. 591 

 (1838-1840); not //. arborescent L., var. oblanga T. & G., f. eterilu 

 (Rehd.) Schneider, 111. Handb. d. Laubholzk. ii. 943 (1912). Torrey 



& Gray's var. sterilis differs from the var. ublonga only in having the 

 "(lowers all sterile and radiate." It is then better treated as a form 

 under that variety than as of equal rank. Although the original 

 collection was made before 1840, no subsequent ones have been seen. 

 Distribution: Pennsylvania: Wysox, ./. Carey (Type in G). 



5. H. akhokescens L., var. Deamii var. now, //. vulgaris Nutt 

 Gen. N. Am. PI. i. 284 (1818), notMiehx.; //. eincrea Small, Bull 

 Torrey Hot. Club xxv. 148 (1898), as to type specimen, not as to 

 description and cotypes; //. eincrea Gray's Man. ed. 7, 450 (1908), 

 in part, ab forma typica differ! foliis grandis cordato-ovatis acumin- 

 ata coriaceis, subtus valde puberuleniis, nervis primariis secundariis- 

 que etiam locis inter nervos pilos fercntibus. 



Differing from //. arborescent L., in having its large cordate-ovate 

 acuminate leaves more coriaceous and with the under surface clothed 

 with a dense puberulence borne from the primary and secondary 

 veins and even from the spaces between veins. 



Distribution: Georgia: rich shady woods, Whitfield Co., 



R. M. Harper, no. 243 (G). Ohio: Cincinnati, II. Buchanan, no! 

 832 (N). Indiana: on an exposed place of the rocky slope of White 

 River, one mile east of Sparksville, Jackson Co.,' July I."), 101!) 

 Charles C. Deam, no. 28,122 (Type in G). Tennkssek: ' rocky 

 hillsides, altitude 2,300 feet, Lookout Mountain, July 1903, //. A. 

 Gleason (G). Illinois: shaded bluff, Homer, Champaign Co., A. 

 8. Pease, no, 13,028. Missouri: limestone bluffs, Neosho, /</. ,/. 

 Palmer, no. 3,999 (G). Arkansas: Benton Co., 1899, E. N. Plank 

 (N). Oklahoma: along streams, Page, Leflore Co., E. ./. Palmer 

 no. 12,640 (Cal). 



6. H. arborescens L., var. Deamii St. John, f. acarpa forma 

 nova, praecedenti similis sed differt floribus omnibus infertilibus 



radiatis(|iie. 



Differs from //. arborescens L., var. Deamii St. John by having all 

 of its Mowers sterile and radiant. 



Distribution: Missouri: woods, Monteer, August 6 L910 



H. F. Hush, no. <;,i 16 (Type in G). 



Stall College of Washington, Pullman, Wash. 



