A NEW CHINQUAPIN 



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ent from the coninion chinquapin (Castanea pumila), 

 to which i seems to be related. My attention was called 

 to this form by W. W. Ashe, of the Forest Service, who 

 has studied the living plants for a number of years and 

 collected a large series of specimens from North Carolina 

 to Louisiana. This new form, which is not uncommon in 

 the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions, has smaller 

 leaves, shorter aments, and larger nuts, than the common 

 chinquapin, and I am here proposing for it the name Cas- 

 tanea pumila ashei, in honor of its discoverer, W. W. 

 Ashe. Its distinguishing characteristics are as follows : 

 Occasionally a tree lo m. in height, but commonly a shrub 

 2-4 m. high, not propagating by underground stems. 

 When the flowers open the leaves are 4-7 cm. long, and 

 when mature they are 5-8 cm. long, and 2-4-5 cm. wide, 

 in outline being elliptic, oblong-ovate or frequently some- 

 what obovate, prevailingly obtuse at the narrowed base 

 and obtuse or abruptly acute at the apex, but sometimes, 

 especially on fruiting shoots, lanceolate and pointed at the 

 apex and much narrowed at the base ; sharply sinuate- 

 toothed, dark green and finally glabrous above, closely 

 gray-pubescent beneath, except on the veins, but never 

 soft-velvety, as in C. pimiila, (none of the leaves ever 

 becoming glabrous or glabrate), and marked with 10-18 

 pairs of prominent veins. Shoots of the season, and often 

 the buds, are more or less gray-pubescent, at least at first. 

 Staminate flowers continuous ; when the open, which 

 takes place during the last week of May in northern 

 Florida, and the first week of June in eastern North 

 Carolina, they are 6-10 cm. long, and 5-7 mm. thick; 

 involucral scales canescent, ciliate, the style being scarcely 

 I mm. long; involucre of fruit bur-like, 1-2.5 cm. thick 

 including the 5-7 mm. long, branched, rigid, gray-canes- 

 cent spines which as a rule, are not sufficiently dense to 

 completely conceal the involucre, as they do in the case 



of C. pwmila; nuts subglobose, as wide as long. Castanea 

 pumila ashei grows on high sandy lands or on the edges 

 of sandy hummocks and swamps within the coastal plain 

 from northeastern North Carolina southward to northern 

 Florida, and westward to Urania, Wynn Parish, Louisi- 

 ana ; probably extending into southeastern Texas. 



This plant differs from C. alnifolia Nutt. in the absence 

 of root stock; and from C. alnifolia floridana Sarg., in 

 being more pubescent, and in having somewhat larger 

 fruit and nut, as well as considerably larger leaves, there 

 being about two additional pairs of veins. None of the 

 leaves of this variety lose their pubescence. The lower 

 leaves on the shoots of C. alnifolia floridana invariably 

 become glabrate and green beneath or glabrous, except 

 for a few scattered hairs near the midrib, the same being 

 true of the petioles and shoots. 



It differs from C. pumila, with which it is associated 

 along the upper edge of the Atlantic coastal plain, in its 

 smaller and blunter leaves, usually obovate in form 

 (those of pumila being lanceolate or oblong), and from 

 10-20 cm. long when mature, and 8-1 1 cm. long when 

 the plant is in flower, clothed with very close, gray 

 pubescence, not soft-velvety as in the case of C. pumila. 

 It differs further from C. pumila in its more slender 

 aments (those of C. pumila being 10-13 om. long and 

 7-10 mm. thick), in having the involucre of the nut less 

 densely covered with spines, which are stouter and gray- 

 canescent, and also in its larger nut. This variety is 

 possibly the Fagiis pumila var. serotina of Walter (Fl. 

 233, 1788) who separates early and late flowering forms, 

 but without descriptions. Type W. W. Ashe, May and 

 September, 1909, Parmelee, Martin County, N. C. Speci- 

 mens of this plant from Florida have been distributed 

 by many collectors and it is well represented in herbaria. 



A GET-TOGETHER MEETING 



'T'HE dedication of "The Roads of Remembrance." a three day 

 meeting of leading foresters and lumbermen of the United 

 States and the annual convention of Intercollegiate Forestry 

 Clubs of this country and Canada, took place at Syracuse April 

 20-22 under the auspices of the New York State College of For- 

 estry at Syracuse University. 



Practically all forestry colleges in North America sent dele- 

 gates. The Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Convention and 

 the meeting of the New York Section of American Foresters 

 coincided with this gathering of the forestry clans. The New 

 York State Forestry Association and other conservation inter- 

 ests were represented. 



Colonel William B. Greeley, Chief Forester of the United 

 States, and Charles Lathrop Pack, President of the American 

 Forestry Association, were on the list of speakers. Deans and 

 professors of colleges, presidents of large corporate interests, ex- 

 perts on everything from salesmanship to paper manufacture 

 participated. There were business meetings, banquets and pow- 

 wows in which the Chamber of Commerce took part. 



The convention was a reflection of the growing interest in for- 

 estry and its contingent problems. It was a get-together meet- 

 ing, a manifestation of the desire on the part of professional for- 

 esters and the big lumber interests to cooperate in the produc- 

 tion, preservation and management of an essential national re- 

 source, the forests. 



The dedication of the Roads of Remembrance took place on the 

 main automobile route from Buffalo to New York between Myce- 

 nae and Chittenango, April 21. It celebrated the beginning of 

 a project of roadside tree planting which will extend across the 

 state and will undoubtedly lead to the development of widespread 

 highway beautification by the planting of trees. Already other 

 sections of the state have taken up the idea and are preparing to 

 beautify the roads with trees. The exercises were conducted 

 by prominent men in public life, military, civic and religious cir- 

 cles. 



The planting of the highway was in memory of those who fell 

 in the world war. The accomplishment of the work was made 

 possible through the cooperation of the State Department of 

 Highways, the American Legion, the property owners along the 

 route, donations from private tree nurserymen and the Forestry 

 College. This living memorial is particularly fitting because it 

 was along the tree-lined highways of France that the American 

 doughboy lived, fought and died for an ideal. The beauty of 

 the "Roads of Remembrance" and its extent will constitute a con- 

 stant reminder of the heroism of our citizen soldiers as long as 

 time endures, not in any particular community, but to the people 

 through the state. It will be a comprehensive commemoration 

 of the sentiment and patriotic sacrifice that contributed so ma- 

 terially to the salvation of the world in 1918. 



