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as errors and did not include it in his list. The report for Crawford 

 County by Deam should be transferred to marilandica. Since the 

 range of the species is not north of Kentucky, the reference to the 

 species in the State should be dropped. 



The published records are as follows: Carroll (Thompson) ; Crawford 

 (Deam); Delaware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne (Phinney); Jay (Mc- 

 Caslin); Fountain (Brown); Miami (Gorby); Parke (Hobbs). 



Quercus Phellos Linnaeus. WILLOW OAK. This species has been 

 reported from various counties of the State. The tree is said to grow 

 in swamps and on sandy uplands, ranging from Staten Island, New 

 York, south to Florida and west to Texas, and north to southern 

 Kentucky. If it occurs within our area it no doubt would have been 

 found by Dr. Schneck, who was an enthusiastic student of the oaks. 

 He reported it as occurring in the lower Wabash in his early writings, 

 but his herbarium contained no specimens. The writer while in search 

 for this species in Posey County met three men in widely separated 

 parts of the county who were acquainted with the species in the South 

 and they said they had never seen it in Indiana. One of the men was an 

 old man who had spent his boyhood in Arkansas and he was well ac- 

 quainted with the willow oak before he came to Indiana. It is believed 

 what has been reported for Q. Phellos has been narrow-leaved forms of 

 Q. imbricaria (shingle oak), and that the records should be transferred to 

 that species. 



The published records are as follows: Gibson, Knox and Posey 

 (Schneck) ; Knox (Thomas) ; Miami (Gorby). 



Quercus prinoides Willdenow. SCRUB OR DWARF CHESNUT OAK. 

 Reported for Marshall County by Nieuwland 1 on the authority of a 

 specimen deposited in the National Museum collected by Clark. I had 

 this reference checked by E. S. Steele and in a letter to me dated January 

 4, 1917, he says : "I find no specimen labeled Quercus prinoides, but there 

 is one named Q. Prinus. There is no ground for calling it Q. prinoides." 

 Since the specimen in question is a very immature one, I propose not to 

 take it into consideration since the range of the species would be 

 extended on a dubious specimen. 



Planera aquatica (Walter) J. F. Gmelin. PLANER-TREE. WATER 

 ELM. This tree was included in Coulter's catalogue upon the authority 

 of Sargent, who includes Indiana in the range of the species in his 

 "Forest Trees of North America," Vol. 9, U.S. Census Report, 1880, 

 page 124. Dr. Schneck spent a lifetime along the lower Wabash bot- 

 toms and very carefully preserved specimens of all the flora of the region 

 where this species is reported to occur. In his report of the flora of this 



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