182 Rhodora [OcroBER 
Common on Grandmother Mt., Linville Mt., and Pixie Mt., N. C., 
and plants from each place in cultivation. A plant now in cultivation, 
which, however, has not yet flowered, seems to be a nearly or quite 
glabrous form. Several live plants of this have been distributed as 
R. grandiflora and at least a portion of the herbarium specimens 
in flower distributed under this name belong here. 
Robinia pallida, sp. nov. (R. grandiflora Ashe, in part). A shrub 
propagating by root-suckers, 3-6 dm. high, or in cultivation becoming 
.2 m. high; stems pale brown with few short greenish-brown branchlets 
at the summit; stipular spines wanting. Shoots at first covered with 
close light gray pubescence, becoming glabrate; peduncles and often 
petioles, rachis and vigorous shoots more or less hispid with pale 
setae. Inflorescence, rachis and lower surface of leaflets until 
mature covered with pale gray often appressed pubescence. Leaves 
are of 9-15 ovate or oblong-ovate sharply acute leaflets, 4—5.5 cm. 
long, green on unfolding, very pale beneath. Flowers large, 21-23 
mm. long, pale rose and pale purplish-rose with much white, in 5-9- 
flowered racemes; calyx broad, 8-10 mm. long, gray, pubescent and 
sparingly hispidulose, the lobes about 4 mm. long and abruptly 
acuminate; peduncles 5-6 cm. long. 
Slopes of the Blue Ridge, Caldwell county, N. C. Plants in culti- 
vation since 1916 collected on the road from Patterson to Blowing 
Rock, N. C. In cultivation blooms just after R. speciosa. This 
plant was included in the original description of R. grandiflora and 
some plants of it were distributed under that name. 
All three of the above proposed species have quite similar pubes- 
cence. As the flowering season is short this similarity in the pubes- 
cence has been confusing. Grandiflora is quite hispid. Pallida and 
speciosa are copiously hispid only on vigorous shoots; neither is 
known to fruit; grandiflora fruits freely. In many respects pallida 
is intermediate between speciosa and grandiflora. When their 
extreme forms are compared in cultivated plants their differences 
are very apparent. 
Robinia fertilis, sp. nov. A shrub becoming in cultivation 2 
mm. high; petiole, rachis, peduncle, calyx and stout twigs hispid, 
with more or less loose short pubescence, or much longer on calyx 
and peduncle, intermixed. Leaves from 22 to 30 cm. long of 15-19, 
usually 17, oblong-ovate, nearly glabrous leaflets, from 17-25 mm. wide. 
Peduncle stout, 5.3-8 cm. long, 5-9-flowered; flowers about 22 mm. 
long; calyx 9-11 mm. long, lobes long-acuminate, pubescent and with 
some gland-tipped hairs. Fruit 3-5.5 cm. long densely hispid; seed 
3-4 mm. long. 
