138 JouEXAL OF THE MiTciiELL SociETY [September 



To the arborescent* service trees can be added a variety and a 

 species: Amelanciiier laevis cokdifolia n. var., which has the 

 leaves deeply cordate and more broadly ovate than in the type. It 

 occurs in Kabun County, Ga., and foothills of the Blue Ridge in 

 Macon County, ^N". C. 



Amelanchier beata sp. nov. A virgate shrub or a small tree 

 3-8 m. in height. Leaf blades ovate to oblong-ovate, and rounded or 

 subcordate at the mostly narrow base, or those at tips of twigs obovate 

 and cuneate at base, 4-7 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, mostly taper-pointed, 

 finely and regularly serrate, loosely pubescent or unfolding, especially 

 below, nearly glabrous by maturity of fruit except the slender petioles 

 H-^ length of blades. Flowers unknown. Fruit in 5-10-fruited 

 strict compact racemes 4-5.5 cm. long, ripening early in June is 

 7-9 mm. thick, dark red-purple, glaucous, densely white woolly at the 

 narrow summit, the narrow acute lobes erect or ascending from a 

 carinate base; pedicels and axis more or less pubescent until fruit 

 matures; lowest pedicels in fruit 12-20 cm. long. Style short, 2-2.5 

 mm. long. 



Type from Toxaway Creek, Oconee County, S. C, but locally 

 abundant along foothills of Chattooga Ridge from Brasstown Creek, 

 Oconee County, S. C, to Jackson County, I^. C. Separate from 

 ohlonglfolia and ohovalis, with which confused, by the acuminate leaf 

 blades and long petioles ; from canadensis by the wolly summit of 

 ovary and longer, narrower ascending or erect calyx lobes. 



Pyrus CAROLiA-Exsisf u. c. On the French Broad River bottoms 

 near Mills River, N. C, occurs this species, which has narrowly ob- 



*The following shrubby form can also be mentioned : 



A. AUSTRO-MONTANA sp. nov. A slirub not exceeding 4 ni. in height. Leaves 2.5-4.5 cm. 

 long, 1.5-3.5 cm. wide, oval and gradually tapering to the apex from the rounded base, or 

 those at tips of twigs, obovate with cuneate base and abruptly acuminate at apex, finely and 

 sharply, but even at tip often rather distantly serrate, with ascending or incurved teeth, the 

 sinus acute, thin, very dark green above, pale green beneath, more or less bronze on unfolding, 

 and coated below with ver.y loose pubescence which has largely disappeared even from the short 

 petioles before foliage is full grown. Flowers, appearing largely before the leaves, in short, 

 nodding 7-10-flowered pubescent racemes, are about 8 mm. long in bud, 15-18 mm. wide when 

 fully expanded, the spatulate petals 2 mm. wide ; calyx small 5-6 mm. wide, rather deep, glab- 

 rous without, pubescent within around base of style and sparingly on lobes, the tips of which 

 are reflexed after anthesis. Hypanthemum becoming very broad and deep on the glabrous 

 fruit, which is 10-14 mm. thick, shining, nearly black when ripe early in Jul}', the tips only 

 of the erect lobes being recurved, and is born in 4-7-fruited racemes, which are 3-4 cm. long, 

 the lowest pedicel exceptionally 1.5 cm. long. Type from near Brevard, Transylvania County, 

 N. C. Related to humUis in fruit characters. 



'tMcdus carolinensis Ashe 1. c. 14: 10. 



