1924] SARGENT. NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN TREES, XII 45 



I have not seen specimens of wild trees which exactly resemble the type 

 of A . neglecta as represented in Lindley 's plate and by the two large trees at 

 Eleutherean Mills, but three specimens presented to the Arboretum herba- 

 rium by Mr. W. W. Ashe resemble the type in their narrow elongated flower 

 clusters and in the size and shape of the yellow flowers which, however, 

 are without the red markings of those of the type; these specimens can 

 perhaps be referred to A. neglecta rather than to any of its varieties. Mr. 

 Ashe's specimens are labeled "Aesculus sp. nov. Alamance County, N. C, 



near Saxapahaw, about June 1, 1000, W. W. Ashe;" "A. sp. nov. near 

 Williamsville, Dunham County, N. C, May 13, 1904, and Aesculus sp. 

 nov., Chapel Hill, N. C, April 20, 1915, sent me by Dr. Coker at my 

 request from tree on the Hillsboro road, W. W. Ashe." 



The more distinct forms of Aesculus neglecta may be arranged as follows: 



Aesculus neglecta Lindley. Leaflets glabrous on the lower surface; 

 flowers in elongated rather open clusters; petals pale yellow or nearly white, 

 marked by small red blotches. 



Aesculus neglecta var. georgiana, n. var. 



Aesculus georgiana Sargent in Trees and Shrubs, n. 359, t. 197 (1913); Man. 



Trees N. Am. ed. 2, 706, f. 635 (1922). 



Differing from the type in the shorter, broader and more densely flowered 



corymbs; in the typical form calyx red on the upper side and pale yellow 



on the lower side; petals bright yellow, passing into forms with entirely 



red or yellow flowers. 



Usually a low broad shrub, occasionally a tree from 14 to 20 metres in 



height. 



The type station for this variety is in De Kalb County, Georgia, near 



the base of Stone Mountain; it ranges northward in Georgia to the northern 

 border of the state and is very abundant in Banks, Rabun and Habersham 

 Counties; it occurs in Seneca and Oconee Counties, South Carolina, T. G. 

 Harbison, no. 1, May 15, 1915, and nos. 7 and 9, April 9, 1918, and ranges 

 northward in the Piedmont region to Durham County, North Carolina, 

 T. G. Harbison, no. 6, April 22, 1918. It is the form which has been found 

 in Alabama by C. Mohr, Madison Co., Mt. Sano, September 26, 1881, 

 "large tree 80-85 feet high;" Tuscaloosa County, Tuscaloosa, rocky 

 banks of the Warrior River, and in Eltowah County, Attalla, by T. G. 

 Harbison, nos. 198, 209, October 8, 1910, "low shrub." It is this form 

 with yellow flowers which occurs in western Florida near Pensacola growing 

 as a small shrub, T. G. Harbison, April 11, 1915, March 21, 1916. 



Aesculus neglecta var. pubescens, nov. comb. 



A georgiana vr.r. pubescens Sargent in Trees and Shrubs, n. 259 (1913); 

 Man. Trees N. Am. ed. 2, 706 (1922). 



Differing from the type and from the var. georgiana in the pubescence 

 covering the lower surface of the leaflets. 



The type of this variety was raised at the Arboretum in 1905 from seeds 

 collected by T. G. Harbison in De Kalb County, Georgia, near the base of 

 Stone Mountain. 



