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ti'uuk diameter of eighteen Inches: "They came from that native grove 

 of white pine in the northeastern part of Floyd County, near the line of 

 Clark. At the time my father got them, about seventj^ years ago, there 

 was quite a grove of the white pines there,- one of them being quite an old 

 tree, which would throw them back of the time of white men. The 

 Knobs in that region are now covered with old field scrub pine" (P. 

 Virginiana Mill). The note is interesting as extending the local range of 

 the white pine. 



ErioiJlioriint yracile Koch, as given in the State Flora, page 655, becomes 

 E. paucinerc'linn (Eiigelm,) A. A. Eaton, as will be seen by reference to 

 Brittou's Manual, page 182, and the latter name should replace it. 

 ErioitJtoruni (jrucile Koch, of Britton's Manual, but not of the Illustrated 

 Flora, has been collected by Mr. C. C. Deam, of Blufifton, in Wells 

 County. The determination of the form was made by E. S. Steele, 

 Assistant Botanist, Department of Agriculture, Washington. 

 E. jKiucinervnim, therefore, replaces E. gracile of the State Flora, and E. 



gracile of Britton's Manual is to be added to the Flora. 

 Quercus Texana Buckley. 



In Britton's "Manual of the Flora of the Northern States aiid Canada," 

 page 333, it will be seen that this species becomes Quercus Schneckii Brit- 

 ton (Q. Texana Sargent, in part, not Buckley). Under the former name it 

 was reported in the "Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and of the Feras 

 and Their Allies Indigenous to Indiana,"^ as occurring in G-ibson. Posey ajnd 

 Knox Counties, upon the authority of Dr. J. Schneck. The statement was 

 also made that it would be found to extend farther northward along the 

 Wabash River. Specimens have oome into my hands since that report 

 from YermilUon County, where it occurs in considerable abundance. 

 While closely allied to Q. palustris DuRoi, with which it is doubtless often 

 confused, it is also liable to be mistaken on casual inspection for Q. rubra 

 L. In addition to the leaf characters which serve to separate the forms, 

 I have found the shape of the buds and color of the twigs of value. The 

 buds are more sharply conical and apparently much more compactly built 

 tlian in either Q. rubra or Q. palu,stris. The twigs are of a lighter, more 

 definite gray than in the other forms and have in addition a peculiar dusty 

 appearance, because of their being slightly tomentulose. A reference to 

 Britton's Manual as cited above will give leaf and fruit characters. I sub- 

 mit with this specimens in fioAver and fruit, labelled Q. Texana Buckley, 



Report of State Geologiat, p. 710. 



