Further notes on trees and shrubs of the southeastern 
United States * 
W. W. ASHE 
~ Vaccinium carolinianum sp. nov. 
A shrub 1-2 m. high, with reddish-brown bark. Ripened 
twigs, glossy red-brown, glabrous, terete or angular; new shoots 
puberulous in lines. Leaves, green as they unfold, nines 
obovate or rarely broadly obovate, 3.2-6 cm. long, 1.6-2.8 
wide, acute, obtuse or rounded at the e apex, cadien at the ase: 
as they unfold essentially glabrous below, a line of pubescence 
on the upper surface along the midrib, the margin until mature 
finely ciliate, entire or on vigorous shoots serrulate above the 
middle; when mature dark green above and pale and Saas chit 
beneath. Flowers, appearing from the middle of May to early 
in June when the cab are more Sig half neat” in small 
rous, lobes broadly triangular. Fruit, ripe in eae 5-7 mm 
thick, blue-black with a bloom, sweet. 
Pink Beds, Transylvania County, North Carolina, May 27 
and July 14, 1916, W. W. A. There is also referred here a 
second specimen from Transylvania County, possibly from the 
same station, namely, H. D. House 4195. This plant differs 
from V. atrococcum (Gray) Heller in being nearly glabrous and 
in the shape of the corolla; from V. simulatum Small in the green 
color of the unfolding leaves which are prevailingly broader and 
in the color of the fruit; from V. pallidum Ait. in having a much 
smaller corolla, smaller fruit, prevailingly entire leaves; and 
from all in the ciliate margin of the foliage. 
v Castanea Margaretta sp. nov. 
Castanea pumila Margaretta Ashe, Bull. Torrey Club 49: 265. 
1922. 
The relationship of this plant seems to be with C. floridana 
(Sarg.) Ashe, rather than with C. pumila (L. ) Mill., but it seems 
* See Bull. Torrey Club 49: 265-268. 1922. 
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