NOTES ON TREES AND SHRUBS 267 
Material collected by the writer in the mountains of Rabun 
County, Georgia, and Yancey County, North Carolina, largely 
agrees with Dode’s description of C. neglecta. In its gross 
characters it shows, as Dode states, a superficial resemblance 
to C. dentata, having large pointed leaves, not very densely 
pubescent, and a large involucre with long, irregular, nearly 
glabrous and closely crowded spines; but there are two nuts to 
the involucre. Other material collected in flower in Sullivan 
County, Tennessee, shows similar leaf character. 
’ Castanea Ashei Sudworth, comb. nov. 
Castanea pumila Ashei Sudworth, Am. For. 28: 300. 1922. 
This is the common chinquepin of the coastal plain of the 
Southern States. Its distribution begins in northeastern Nort 
Carolina and extends to Louisiana (and probably to south- 
eastern Texas). It is separated from C. pumila by its smaller 
foliage, shorter and more slender aments, canescent spines on 
the involucre and prevailingly thicker nuts. Walter (Fl. Car. 
233. 1788) notes two forms (without description), praecox and 
serotina. C. Ashet is possibly his forma praecox. 
The type of C. pumila (L.) Mill. (Fagus pumila L.) came from 
eastern Virginia (Gronovius, Flora Virginica 118. 1739), within 
which region the ene known form is that which is here regarded 
as typical C. pumi 
Key to Castanea pumila group (one nut to the involucre) 
Al=Alleghanian; C=Carolinian; A=Austral. 
Spines of mature fruit densely set, glabrous or 
glabrate. 
Leaves soft-pubescent beneath............. C. pumila (Al & C). 
Leaves 10-20 cm. long, more or less glabrate.. x C. neglecta (Al). 
Spines of mature fruit not densely set, canescent or 
Leaves 10-15 cm. long; 12-20 pairs of veins. 
All leaves closely white-pubescent be- 
RABE a ee ee C. Ashet (A). 
Interior leaves green beneath or glab- 
MitG ee ee C. pumila Margaretta (C). 
Leaves 6-10 cm. long; 8-16 pairs of veins. 
Only uppermost leaves on twigs white- 
pubescent beneath. 
10-16 pairs of veins, non-stoloniferous. C. i ilecosd (A). 
8-12 pairs of veins, a dwarf stoloniferou 
OMIM re ae C. alnifolia (A). 
All leaves white pubescent beneath...... C. alnifolia pubescens (A), 
