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C. pumila var. georgiana occurs on rocky blviffs, Franklin Furnace, Sussex 

 County, New Jersey {K. K. MacKenzie, August 22, 1909, no. 4331), and 

 ranges from the Piedmont region of North Carolina (Raleigh, Wake County, 

 T. G. Harbison, June 11, 1918) to western Florida, Autauga and Dallas 

 counties, Alabama, and occurs in southern Missouri (rocky hills and bluffs, 

 B. F. Bush, Swan, Taney County, September 23, 1905 [no. 5040], Monteer, 

 Shannon County, August 18, 1901 [no. 703], Noel, McDonald County, August 9, 

 1908 [no. 5040]). The oldest specimen of this plant which I have seen was 

 collected near Augusta, Georgia, by Olney and Metcalf in 1855 (in Herb. Gray). 



On the rocky wooded slopes and ridges of Lawrence, Orange, 

 Washington, Crawford, Perry, Floyd, and Harrison counties in the 

 extreme southern part of Indiana a dwarf Celtis occurs in a few 

 isolated stations. In the general outline of the leaf it resembles 

 C pumila, but the pedicels of the lighter-colored fruits are much 

 longer; the leaves, which are smooth or nearly so on the upper 

 surface and rather thicker than those of C. pumila, are slightly 

 pubescent along the under side of the midribs and veins and on 

 the petioles; the branchlets are usually puberulous. Judged by the 

 present inadequate information now accessible concerning this 

 plant it appears intermediate between C. pumila and its variety 

 georgiana, although the nutlets are smoother than those of C. 

 pumila, and it may be distinguished as 



Celtis pumila var. Deamii, n. var. — Leaves broadly ovate to 

 oblong-ovate, acuminate and often long-pointed at apex, unsym- 

 metrically rounded at base, entire or occasionally sharply and 

 irregularly serrate above the middle, thick, dark green on both 

 surfaces, smooth or slightly roughened above, 3-nerved, reticulate 

 venulose, slightly villose pubescent on the prominent midribs and 

 veins, 6-8 cm. long and 3.5-4 cm. wide; petioles slender, villose 

 pubescent, 8-10 mm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots acute 

 or acuminate, obliquely rounded at base, thicker, entire, scabrate 

 above, often 10 cm. in length. Flowers not seen. Fruit sub- 

 globose, ellipsoidal or slightly obovoid, tan color or orange until 

 after midsummer, becoming when fully ripe dark orange-red, 

 7-8 mm. in diameter; pedicels 6-15 mm. long. 



An arborescent shrub 2-4 m. high, with a stem 3 . 5-5 cm. in diameter, 

 covered with dark, rough, deeply fissured bark and slender, reddish brown, 

 slightly pubescent branchlets. 



