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Wardii occurs on the opposite shore hardly two hundred yards 

 distant, the two species being respectively confined to the north 

 and south sides of the river. The form of Salix Wardii occurring 

 there is peculiar ; the bushes are smaller than any heretofore ob- 

 served, diffusely branched and the branches decumbent or almost 

 prostrate, spreading radially and forming large, tangled mats, 

 seldom rising more than six inches above the ground. 



QuERCUS NANA (Marsh.) Sarg. Gard. & Forest, 8: 93. 1895. 

 I was much surprised to find quantities of this scrub oak on the 

 summit of King's and Crowder's Mountains near the southern 

 boundary of North Carolina in the summer of 1894. The locality 

 is within several miles of South Carolina and about one hundred 

 miles cast of the Blue Ridge. 



QUERCUS RUBRA L. Sp. PI. 996. 1/5 3- 



The existence of the red oak in Georgia was unknown to bot- 

 anists before 1893. In that year I discovered a few trees just 

 south of the North Carolina boundary, on the summit of the 

 Thomas Bald, at an altitude of 5200 feet. The trees were stunted 

 and irregular, as is characteristic at high altitudes. Last year, 

 however. I found a remarkable development of the species in the 

 northwestern corner of Georgia, in Catoosa county. The species 

 abounds in the limestone "bottoms;" trees three feet or more in 

 diameter are not uncommon, their trunks, naked often for seventy- 

 five feet from the ground, are so straight that it is impossible to tell 

 which way they will fall when cut off at the base. The thick bark 

 is more or less mottled, whence the local name " Leopard Oak." 



Celtis MississiPPiENSis Bosc, Encycl. Agric. 7: 577. 1822. 

 Although extending over most of the western part of Georgia, 

 this species of hackberry reaches its greatest development in the 

 rich limestone " bottoms " in the region east of Lookout Moun- 

 tain. Gigantic trunks, three or four feet in diameter, are very 

 common, and are covered with innumerable corky warts, which 

 range from one to two or even three inches in height. 



Darbyaumbellulata A.Gray, Am. Journ.Sci. (II.) i : 388. 1846. 

 I have lately discovered a new station for this rare plant. It 



