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or deeply fissured on the larger forms; ridges flat and broken, dark gray- 

 brown; twigs at first hairy, becoming smooth or nearly so by autumn; 

 leaves of an ovate type, broadly-ovate, oblong-ovate to narrow ovate, 

 on petioles 0.5-1.5 cm. long, blades of fruiting branchlets 3-10 cm. long, 

 those of sterile twigs sometimes larger, oblique, rounded or somewhat 

 cordate at the base, taper-pointed, sometimes acuminate at the apex, 

 margins entire or with a few teeth usually about or above the middle, 

 becoming thick and smooth above at maturity, sometimes rough, 

 especially on vigorous shoots, generally somewhat pubescent along the 

 veins beneath; fruit matures late in the autumn, usually an orange or 

 light cherry color late in summer, becoming a very dark cherry color 

 late in the autumn, globose to ellipsoidal, on pedicels about as long as 

 the petioles; sometimes the pedicels are shorter but usually about one- 

 half longer; pedicels generally ascending, rarely recurved, when recurved 

 the pedicels are short. 



Distribution. Pennsylvania to northern Illinois, south to Florida 

 and west to Arkansas. Local in Indiana. It has been collected by the 

 writer in Lake County near the mouth of the Grand Calumet River 

 where it was collected by E. J. Hill who has given us the most detailed 

 account of this species. Also collected on a high, gravelly hill on the 

 east side of Hog-back Lake, Steuben County; on a rocky wooded slope 

 in Hamar's Hollow southeast of Mitchell in Lawrence County; on a 

 "knob" in Floyd County; on a rocky wooded slope near Big Spring 

 in Washington County; frequent on a rocky wooded slope near the 

 Ohio River east of Elizabeth in Harrison County; on the bank of Blue 

 River near Milltown in Crawford County; and in Perry County 

 along the bluffs of the Ohio River about six miles east of Cannelton, 

 and also on the crest of a ridge about six miles southwest of Derby. 

 It has also been reported by Nieuwland for Clark in Marshall County. 



Remarks.- This species is usually a small shrub, and usually bears 

 fruit when only 1.5-2 meters (5 or 6 feet) tall. Only a few trees have 

 been seen that were 40 cm. (4 inches) in diameter. The small size at 

 which this species fruits, easily distinguishes it from other species in 

 our area. Its habitat also serves to distinguish it. Along Lake Michi- 

 gan it grows on the dry sand dunes, and in southern Indiana it grows on 

 dry rocky slopes. 



Sargent who has examined all of my specimens credits Indiana with 

 the typical species, and separates from it a form which he calls Celtis 

 pumila variety Deamii 2 . This variety is based upon my No. 18,727, 

 and the type specimen has been photographed to illustrate this species. 



'Hill: Notes on Celtis pumila, etc. Bui. Torrey Club: Vol:27:496-505:1900. 

 2 Bot. Gaz. Vol. 67:228-229:1919. 



