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als ciliate on the margin. This species which is easily distinguished from 

 Aesculus odandra by the absence of glandular hairs on the calyx and pedi- 

 cel is now known to be widely distributed in the Piedmont regions from 

 North Carolina to northern Georgia, and to occur on the banks of the Sa- 

 vannah River near Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, in northern 

 Alabama (Madison, Etowah and Tuscaloosa Counties) and near Pensacola, 

 Escambia County, Florida. It is sometimes a shrub but often a slender 

 tree from 10 to 15 m. high. The flowers are sometimes red and yellow, often 

 yellow and occasionally bright red. The inflorescence which is short, broad 

 and densely flowered in the type, is sometimes narrow and more elongated 

 with less crowded flowers. The calyx which is normally campanulate 

 varies considerably in shape and is occasionally tubular, the two forms 

 sometimes appearing in the same inflorescence. The var. pubescens Sarg. 

 distinguished by the pubescence on the lower surface of the leaves, known 

 first only from the neighborhood of Stone Mountain proves also to be 

 widely distributed and occasionally arborescent in habit. This variety is 

 common in the woods west of Augusta and occurs in Rabun and Floyd 

 Counties, Georgia; in North Carolina it ascends on the Blue Ridge to alti- 

 tudes of about 1000 meters and ranges northward in the Piedmont region 

 to Orange County; southward it is not rare with the species in northern 

 Alabama. A form with narrow leaflets may be distinguished as 



Aesculus georgiana var. lanceolata, n. var* 



Differing from the type in its narrow-lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate 

 leaflets. 



Leaves 5-foliolate with glabrous petioles 9-12 cm. in length; leaflets 

 lanceolate to slightly oblanceolate long-acuminate at apex cuneate at base, 

 finely serrate with incurved gland-tipped teeth, when the flowers open 

 early in ]\Iay thin, yellow-green above, pale below, glabrous with the ex- 

 ception of occasional hairs on the under side of the slender midrib and of 

 minute axillary tufts, 13-18 cm, long and 3-4 cm. wide, their petiolules 

 5-8 mm. in length. Flowers bright red, othenvise as in the type, in a nar- 

 row panicel 15 cm, in length. Fruit not seen. 



A tree 8-10 m. high with a short trunk 15 20 cm. in diameter, erect 

 branches forming a narrow head and slender, gla}>rous branchlets. 



Georgia. Rabun County, T. G. Harlmon (No. 19 type) May 9, 1917. 



X Aesculus Bushii Schneid. (A. discolor var. mollis Sarg. X A. glabra 

 var. leucodermis Sarg.) 



To this hybrid which was found several years ago near Fulton, Hempstead 

 County, Arkansas, should probably be referred a tree found near Starkville, 

 Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, by T. G. Harbison (No. 1055) April 7, 1913. 

 From the type of A, Bushii the Mississippi tree differs in its rather more pu- 

 bescent and less coarsely serrate leaflets, in its longer and narrower inflores- 

 cence, and in its narrower red calyx and darker red petals. 



Aescrdus discolor var. mollis^ A. Pavia and the typical form of A, glabra 

 are the only Buckeyes which grow in Oktibbeha County. The mixture of 



