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cending, conspicuous by their white bark ; branchlets clothed with 
a gray or reddish bark; leaves depressed-orbicular (2. é., broader 
than high), or rarely orbicular in outline, mostly three-lobed, 
sometimes imperfectly five-lobed, 4-9 cm. in diameter, cordate or 
truncate, petioled, with a rather open and shallow sinus, dark green, 
glabrous and marked with light nerves above, greenish, tinged 
with red, prominently nerved and very velvety (to the touch) be- 
neath, the lobes acute or acuminate (the 4th or 5th when present 
obtuse), each (or the terminal one only) bearing two obtuse teeth ; 
petiole slender, reddish, 3-6 cm. long; flowers not seen; wings 
of the samaras oblong-spatulate, 1-2 cm. long, red, conspicuous, 
parallel or nearly so (more or less spreading when the fruits sepa- 
rate at maturity); seed oblong, its covering prominently veined. 
A very handsome maple, characteristic on account of its habit 
of branching near the base into from several to many second- 
ary trunks, and the white bark. The bright green color of its 
foliage and the usually bright red fruit render it conspicuous, 
and while the velvety pubescence on the lower surfaces of the 
leaves is not prominent it is remarkably soft and dense to the 
touch. ; 
As far as I have observed, the tree is confined to the bottoms 
of two rocky cafions, that of the Yadkin River, in Stanley county, 
North Carolina, and especially that of the Yellow River, in Guitt- 
nett county, Georgia. Dr. Trelease has reported the tree from 
further south, where it doubtless occurs, but I do not know the 
character of the localities. 
KOELLIA VERTICILLATA (Michx.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl, 520. 1891. 
Pycnanthemum Torreyi Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 329. 1834: 
This species of Koellia has never been recorded as growing 
further south than Southwestern Virginia,* and consequently it has 
not been credited to the Southern Flora. In August, 1893, I 
found the plant growing in Northern Georgia, in Rabun county, 
near Estotoah Falls. It was quite plentiful in the valleys and 
ravines, at about 2000 feet altitude and inhabited localities much 
like those in which it was found in Southwestern Virginia. 
/ SOLIDAGO YADKINENSIs (Porter). 
Solidago Boottii var. Yadkinensis Porter, Bull. Torr. Club. 1892: 
Perennial, slender, wand-like, glabrous and of an olive-green 
* Mem. Torr. Club, 4: 146. 
