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Kansas. — Woods, Barber County, A. S. Hitchcock, 1896 (no. 815 in Herb. 

 Gray) ; vicinity of Huntsville, Walker County, R. A . Dixon, July 1909 (no. 387 

 in Herb. Gray). 



Missouri. — Willard, Greene County, /. W. Blankinship, August 2, 1893; 

 Noel, McDonald County, B. F. Bush, August 7, October 12, 1908 (nos. 4977, 

 5255), E. J. Palmer, September 5, 1913, May 5, 1914, October 11, 1918, 

 (nos. 4141, 5795. 14665, 14668); "along rocky banks," Carthage, Jasper 

 County, E. J. Palmer, 191 7, Webb City, E. J. Palmer, September 28, 1908; 

 Knight's Station, C. S. Sargent and E. J. Palmer, October 8, 191 1 (no. 3489), 

 July 13, 1913 (no. 4019). 



Mexico. — Reynosa, Tamaulipas, on the lower Rio Grande, C. G. Pringle, 

 August 7, 1888 (no. 2082); SaltiUo, Coahuila, Ed. Palmer, 1898. 



Celtis laevigata texana f. microphylla, n. f.— Differing from 

 the variety in its smaller leaves with more prominent reticulate 

 veinlets, and more densely villose-pubescent petioles. Leaves 

 broadly ovate, acute, unsymmetrically rounded at base, smooth, 

 dark green and granulate above, yellow-green below, with villose 

 pubescent midribs and veins and conspicuous reticulate veinlets, 

 2-2.5 cm. long and 1.5-2 cm. wide. Flowers and fully grown 

 fruit not seen. 



A shrub with slender, red-brown branchlets densely pubescent in their first 

 season, becoming puberulous in their second year. 



Rocky banks of streams, Sweet Water, Nolan County, Texas, E. J. Palmer, 

 May 27, 1918 (no. 13751 type). 



Celtis laevigata var, brachyphylla, n. var. — Diflfering from 

 the type in the shorter thicker leaves. Leaves ovate, acuminate 

 and long-pointed at apex, very oblique and rounded or cordate at 

 base, entire, occasionally furnished on one side near the base with 

 a broad rounded lobe, glabrous, thick and firm, green on the two 

 surfaces, 3.5-4 cm. long and 2-3 cm. wide, with slender midribs 

 and veins; petioles slender, glabrous, 5-6 mm. in length. Fruit 

 subglobose to short-oblong, bright orange-red, 6-7 mm. in diameter; 

 pedicels glabrous, longer than the petioles. ^ 



A tree about 10 m. tall, with slender, glabrous, dark red-brown branchlets. 

 Rocky banks of the canyon of the Nueces River near Uvalde, Uvalde 

 County, Texas, E. J. Palmer, September 26, 1918 (no. 14517 type). 



Celtis laevigata var. anomala, n. var. — Differing from the 

 type in its oblong-ovate, acute leaves, cordate or unsymmetrically 



