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Quercus Phellos L. Willow Oak. 



This form has been recorded as found in Gibson, Posey and Knox Counties. 

 Concerning the occurrence of this species in this region, Dr. Ridgway 

 says: "This species I give with some doubt, not being quite positive 

 that it occurs. I have seen, however, along the road between Mount 

 Carmel and Olney several trees which, at the time of inspection, I un- 

 hesitatingly decided to be Q. Phellos, but not having seen it since, while 

 Dr. Schneck has not recorded it, I place the interrogation mark before 

 it."^ Since the publication of the Catalogue Dr. Schneck writes me that 

 " a very narrow-leaved form of Q. imhricaria has probably been mistaken 

 for Q. Phellos." If this be true, there exists no definite record of the oc- 

 currence of Q. Phellos in Indiana. Collectors in the southwestern coun- 

 ties should examine carefully as to the correctness of this view. 



Celtis pumila (Muhl. ) Pursh. 



" Rocky banks of Blue River" (J. Schneck, M. D.). This shrub-like Hack- 

 berry, undoubtedly occurs in our area. It is included by Britton and 

 Brown (Vol. 1, p. 526) under 0. occidentalis L., which is described as a 

 "shrub or a tree." Sargent also includes under C. occidentalis, of which 

 he says : "A polymorphous species; the low shrub form of hillsides and 

 sand dunes is the C. pumila of Pursh." The reasons for not maintaining 

 pumila in at least varietal rank are not clearly apparent. The form, 

 however, is in the Catalogue, by inclusion in C. occidentalis. 



Some Mid-Summer Plants of South-Eastern Tennessee. 



By Stanley Coultek. 



The center from which the collections here reported were made was 

 Mt. Nebo in the Chilhowee Mountains. It is about ten miles to the east 

 of Maryville, which gives the nearest railway communication. From the 

 summit of the mountain the eye reaches westward over a beautiful plain, 

 to the Cumberland Mountains, while twenty miles to the east there arise 

 the peaks of the Great Smoky Mountains. The region lying between the 

 Chilhowee and Great Smoky Mountains is practically virgin, only rela- 

 tively small areas having been taken for agricultural purposes. The 



'Ridgway, Robert.— Notes on the Native Trees of the Lower Wabash and White River 

 Valleys, in Illinois and Indiana. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 1882, p. 83. 



