374 BOTANICAL GAZETTE | NOVEMBER 
FOTHERGILLA Carouina (L.) Britt. A low shrub with erect or 
spreading branches, reaching a height of 0.6™ or rarely 1": leaves 2 
to 4™ long, 1 to 2™ wide, oblong or obovate, rounded or cuneate at 
base, obtuse and usually emarginate at apex, denticulate to coarsely 
crenate above, thickish, dull green and smooth on the upper surface, 
below paler and somewhat glaucous, smoothish or soft pubescent with 
brown or fulvous hairs, with 3 or 4 pairs of prominent straight veins; 
petiole pubescent, 2 to 4™ long; stipules minute, 2 to 3™" long, decid- 
uous : terminal bud and young twig soft pubescent, bud 3 to 4™ long: 
style 6 to 8"™™ long: capsule clothed with fulvous pubesence, the styles 
erect and parallel: seed 4 to 5™™ long. 
I have been unable to secure specimens of this plant from farther south 
than southern South Carolina, but expect that the plant which has been col- 
lected in central Alabama is referable to this species. 
Fothergilla monticola, sp. nov. A bushy shrub, commonly dividing 
near the base into erect virgate branches, with dark brown or reddish 
minutely roughened bark, reaching an average height of about 1.2", 
or exceptionally even 2.5": leaves 8 to 12™ long, 5 to 8™ wide, oval, 
broadly obovate or nearly orbicular, cordate, subcordate or truncate 
and unequal at base, rounded or obtusely pointed at apex, irregularly 
crenulate or undulate even to the base, membranaceous, bright green 
on both sides, smooth or nearly so even when young, the 4 to 6 pairs 
of prominent parallel veins terminating in short mucros; petiole 
slender, 1 to 1.5™ long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 5 to Le 
long, somewhat persistent: terminal bud naked, flattened, sericeous, 
about 5™" long: twigs mostly smoothish, red-brown: flowers unknown, 
but style 1™ long, evidently longer than in /. Carolina: spikes 3 to a 
long: capsules larger than the preceding, clothed with grayish pubes- 
cence; styles divergent: seed grooved at the top, 6™ long. 
Rocky woods, mountains of Virginia to South Carolina, between 400 and 
1200™ elevation. 3 
The only published name which could possibly apply to this species 'S 
Fothergilla major Lodd.t_ This description is from cultivated plants which 
n to be only vigorous speci £ F. Carolina, and are described as having 
spikes over three inches in length, late in flowering, and leaves broad and 
much toothed. The limited distribution of F. monticola, and the fact that 
none of the early Ar t i g ized more than one species, though 
Elliott remarks that the species (the coast plant) is variable in the color of 
‘Botanical Cabinet, 1720. 
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