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to the valley of the White River. Specimens collected in Barry 
County, Missouri, by Bush and A. B. Smith seem on account of 
their glaucous leaves to belong to this species rather than to the 
next, which appears entirely to replace it in northwestern Arkan- 
sas in Madison and Washington Counties. 
/ Castanea arkansana sp. nov. 
lanceolate or oblong, 13-22 cm. long, 
white pubescent beneath. Staminate aments 15-20 cm. long, 
about 8 mm. thick. Fruit, in stout sessile clusters, often 9 cm. 
long, and 2.3 cm. thick, densely set with nearly straight spines, 
I-1.2 cm. long; the solitary ovate nut dull brown, often 1.7 cm. 
long, being longer than that of any other American chinquepin. 
Carroll, Madison, Franklin,Benton and Washington Counties, 
Arkansas, the type from near War Eagle Creek, Madison 
County. 
Both of the above proposed species are well separated from 
other related species by their very large and coarsely toothed 
foliage and large involucres. The distinguishing characters of 
C. arkansana are its ample drooping foliage, coarsely, often doubly 
serrate, leaves, the points of the teeth often reflexed and the 
close white pubescence on the shade leaves. 
‘Celtis laevigata apposita var. nov. 
above, rarely slightly roughened, glabrous and pale or glauces- 
cent beneath, entire or nearl . Fruit globose or subglobose, 
4-6 mm. thick, the pedicels somewhat longer than the petioles. 
Frequent on rocky, especially limestone, slopes at Camp 
Knox, Kentucky, W. W. A., July, 1923. In habit and general 
shape and size of foliage this tree resembles Celtis georgiana 
Small, from which it differs in its larger size and thicker glabrous 
eaves with entire margins. It is probably best regarded as a 
