List of Excluded Species and Varieties 



.V number of reports or specimens of woody plants from Xew Hampshire 

 are open to much doubt. In several instances reports in the literature have 

 been in error while in others the identiftcation of herbarium specimens 

 has been faulty. 



It may be that certain of these will eventually be demonstrated to be 

 present in the state. However, unless we have been able to locate a speci- 

 men or to find a station to confirm each taxon we have omitted it from the 

 hst. 



Juniperus horizontalis Moench. 



Reported by C A. Weathecby, C. H. Knowlton, and R. C. Bean in Rhodora 

 28:43-46, 1926. They state on page 46, "J. horizontalis is, except for a single station 

 on the slope of Mt. Equinox in Manchester, Vermont (Mary A. Day), confined to 

 the immediate vicinity of the coast in Maine, New Hampshire, and extreme north- 

 eastern Massachusetts (Xevvbury)". Confusion may have resulted from the fact 

 that the specimen in the Gray Herbarium from Oldtown Hill, Newbury, Massa- 

 cliusetts, was wrongly labelled Newbury, New Hampshire. As it is also known from 

 Maine, it may yet turn up along some part of New Hampshire's short rocky coastline. 



Carya tomentosa Nutt. 



Reported by R. C. Bean, C. H. Knowlton, and A. F. Hill in Rhodora 58:127, 1956. 

 This is based apparently on a specimen of Carya ovata var. [^itbcsccns from Durham 

 that had been wrongly identified some years ago by Hodgdon. 



Betula papyrifera Marsh var. commutata (Regel.) Fern. 



Reported by Bean, Knowlton, and Hill in Rhodora 58:128, 1956. This again is 

 based on a misidentification by Hodgdon. The specimen is much nearer to B. 

 j^apyrifcra var. cordifolia. This variety may turn up in the northern part of New 

 Hampshire. 



Ulmus Thomasi Sarg. 



Reported by H. G. Jesup from Meriden, New Hampshire, in his "Catalogue of 

 the Flowering Plants and Higher Crytograms Found Within About Thirty Miles 

 of Hanover, New Hampshire", p. 37, 1891. In the Jesup Herbarium there is a 

 specimen from Meriden labelled U. raccinosa. This is one of the forms of U. a>ncricana. 

 This species principally of calcareous regions might be expected in the vicinity of 

 the Connecticut River, but rather careful search has not revealed it. 



Menispermum canadense L. 



Reported by Jesup, loc. cit., p. 2, from both sides of the Connecticut River at 

 Claremont. Jesup cited Dr. Barrows as his authority. W. H. Blanchard in Rhodora 

 4:129-130, 1902, stated on the strengtli of the earlier report by Barrows, that it 

 grew in Claremont. No specimens have been seen and a recent inspection of both 

 biiuks of the Conecticut River at Claremont bv the authors failed to reveal it. 



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