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JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 24. May, 1922. No. 281. 
NOTES ON TREES AND SHRUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN 
NORTH AMERICA. 
W. W. ASHE. 
DurxeG the summer of 1921 Viburnum densiflorum Chapman and 
Quercus hybrida (Chapman) Small were collected in Newton County, 
Texas. This extends the distribution of the Viburnum 400 miles 
westward (hitherto southern Alabama) and that of the oak 300 miles 
westward (hitherto southern Mississippi). These plants were growing 
under what would seem to be the same conditions as in the type loca- 
tions in northwestern Florida, the Viburnum on the edge of small 
sandy hummocks in longleaf pine forests, and the oak on dry sand 
bluffs near or bordering streams. Since the name for this oak proposed 
by Small is already occupied it is suggested on account of its habitat 
that it be called 
Quercus arenicola n. n. Q. hybrida (Chapman) Small, Fl. S. E. U. 
S. Ed. 1,350 (1903), not Q. hybrida Bechst., Forstbot. Ed. 5,211 
(1829);nor Q. hybrida Brot. Fl. Lusit. 2:31 (1804) ; nor Q. hybrida Houba, 
Chén. de l'Am. Sept. 310 t. (1887). This oak is strongly marked in 
its characters, although it is not recognized by Sargent in his manual. 
Notwithstanding its slightly drooping lower branches at a distance it 
resembles and almost rivals in beauty of foliage Q. laurifolia Mx., from 
which, however, and from Q. obtusa Ashe it is separated by having 
much smaller fruit (acorns only 9-12 mm. thick and much constricted 
at base), and extremely flat shallow cups with very small scales; while 
from narrow-leaved forms of Q. nigra L. it 1s separated by the prevail- 
