1920] REIIDER, NEW SPECIES, VARIETIES AND COMBINATIONS 45 



Photmia LindL 



Photina villosa DC. var. coreana, comb. nov. — Poiirthiaea coreana 

 Decaisne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, x. 148 (1874), — Pirns molyoensis 



Le 



Pourthiaea villosa var. 



M 



This variety dlfTers from the type chiefly in the tliinner, long-acuminate 

 leaves and usually attenuate at the base, in the somewhat longer (3-6 mm. 

 long) petioles and in the slenderer pedicels and branches of the inflores- 

 cence which is villous or sometimes only slightly so. It occurs in Korea 

 and Japan, 



Amelanchier Med, 

 Amelanchier grandiflora, hybr. nov. (= A. canadensis x laeiis 



Wiegand in herb,) 

 Svst. Verz. Muend 



ifoli 



cm 



in Beissncr, Scliellc & Zabel, Handb. Laubholz-Ben. 191 (1903), noinen. 

 A. lancijolia hort. gall, ex Zabcl, 1. c. (1903), pro synon. 



Arbor vcl frutex ramis patentibus gracilibus; ramuli juniores initio 

 floccoso-villosi, mox glabri, annotini purpurco-fusci. Folia ovata vel 

 oblongo-ovata, breviter acuminata, basi subcordata, 4-10 cm. longa et 

 2.5-4 cm. lata, subaequaliter argute serrata, initio glauco-purpurca et supra 

 laxe, subtus satis dense tomento sericeo-floccoso cito evanescente obtecta, 

 maturitate glabra, supra opace viridia, subtus glauca, utrinsecus nervis 

 7-12 conspicuis; petioli 1.2-2 cm. longi, initio sericeo-villosi, mox glabri. 

 Racemi plerique pendentes, flexuosi, 5-10 cm. longi, 8-10-flori, laxissime 

 sericeo-villosi, purpurascentes; pedicelli inferiores 1.5-2.2 cm. longi, 

 apicem versus decipientes; calyx extus glaber vel fere glaber, purpurascens; 

 sepala triangular!- vel ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, 4 5 mm. longa, sub 

 anthesi initio erecti, mox reflexi; petala oblongo-oblanceolata, 1.3-1.6 cm. 

 longa et 5-G mm. lata; ovarium apice glabrum; hypanthium late campanu- 

 latura. Fructus atropurpurei, leviter glaucescentes, 7-8 mm. diam., suc- 

 culenti, dulces, sepalis reflexis, pcdicellis inferioribus 1.7-2.5 cm. longis. 



Cultivated specimens: Bot. Gard. Muenden, April 23 and July 3, 1893, A. Rehder 

 (type); Arnold Arboretum under No. 4406 (received from Muenden in 1892), 

 May 11, 1900, May 3, 1902, June 22, 1903, May 11 and July 6, 1912, May 14 and 

 July 5, 1919; Arb. Spaeth, Berlin, May 8, 1909, //. Jensen (as A. canadensis). 



The following spontaneous specimens In the herbaria of the Arnold Arboretum 

 and of the New England Botanical Club and in the Gray Herbarium have been 

 referred to this hybrid by Dr. K. M. Wiegand: 



Ontario. Kingston, May 15, 1902, J. Fowler. 



Vermont. Windham County: Westminster, April 30, May 15, 1903, and 

 (North) Westminster, Rod. Smith's pasture, May 3 and 10, 1903, W. H. Blmichard 

 (distributed as A. intermedia). Rutland County: Noyes swamp, Tittsford, May 6, 

 1899, W. W. Egglcston (No. 1183); Rutland, July 7, 1899, G. H. Ross (Eggleston, 



No. 1118). 



New Hampshire. Sullivan County : Summer's Falls, Plainfield, July 27, 1900, 



TT'. W. Eggleston (So. 1958). 



