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uniflore longer than petiols, fruits round oboval 

 brown — a shrub 3 to 5 feet high, erect with 

 spreading branches, found by myself in the hills 

 of Maryland, blossoming in May, said to grow 

 also in the Mts. of Virginia and in Louisiana, 

 easily known by the few small teeth, leaves 1 

 or 2 inches long rather thin. 



504. Celtis heteropiiyla Raf. shrubby, 

 branchlets smooth terete rugose, leaves multi- 

 form, ovate or cordate, oblong or lanceolate, 

 base hardly obliqual rounded or cordate, end 

 acute or acuminate, margin entire or with a 

 few teeth, but all smooth thin with nerves reti- 

 culate beneath, pedicels axillary uniflore longer 

 than petiols, young fruits ovate — sent me from 

 Alabama, a very singular species offering all 

 kinds of leaves on the same small branches (1 or 

 2 inches long) yet unlike any of the other shrub- 

 by kinds. Is it the C. pnmila found by short 

 and Riddell in Kentucky ? 



565. Celtis patula Raf shrubby diffuse, 

 branches divaricate, branchlets angular smooth 

 leaves uniform cordate acute, entire or serru- 

 late in the middle, rough above, beneath smooth 

 reticulate, base not obliqual, petiols and pedi- 

 cels very short — from Florida, humble shrub, 

 branches quite divergent, sometimes reflexed, 

 leaves over one inch long and broad, pale above 

 as in C. alba. Near to C. reticulata^ which 

 differs chiefly by leaves pubescent obliqual 

 obtuse. 



566. Celtis floridana Raf shrubby, branch- 

 lets angular pubescent above, petiols pubescent 

 very short, leaves broad ovate obliqual acute 

 serrulate in the middle above rough rugose, be- 

 neath reticulate by grey pubescent nerves, pedi- 

 cels short but longer than petiols, fruit depres- 



