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V Tex Beadlei, nom. nov. //ex mo//is of southern authors, and in part 
that of Gray’s Manual. Prinos dubius Don? is usually given as a syno- 
nym for this species, but the original description will scarcely apply to 
I. Beadlet, and the distribution assigned to Prinos dubius, from North 
Carolina to New Jersey, barely even extends as far south as the most 
northern point where /. Bead/ei is known to occur. The distribution 
of £ Beadlet is from Kings mountain, North Carolina, westward 
through the southwestern part of North Carolina, to northern Georgia, 
eastern Tennessee, and probably to northern Alabama. ‘This species 
reaches its best development and is most abundant in and around 
Ocoee county, Georgia. The name proposed for the species is in 
honor of Mr. C. D. Beadle, Curator of the Biltmore Herbarium. 
ILEX amBicua (Michx.) Chapm., which is the smallest and most 
delicate of the southern species of the genus, probably does not occur 
north of the Neuse river in North Carolina, its distribution terminating 
with that of the sand hills on which it grows. 
RHUS AROMATICA MOLLIS (Gray) (&. Canadensis var. mollis Gr.) 
occurs in North and South Carolina only in the Piedmont region, not 
being found above 250" altitude. Besides being densely pubescent 
beneath, the leaflets, in all the specimens which I have seen, are con- © 
siderably broader than in 2. aromatica. 
ENDRIUM BUXIFOLIUM PROSTRATUM (Loud.) (Lesophyllum prostra- 
tum Loud.), collected from the summit of Table Rock at 1000” altitude, 
has nearly the same characters as that from the summit of Roan 
mountain, at nearly twice that altitude, while B. buxifolium, collected 
at an altitude only a few meters below that of Table Rock, has the 
; oblong and more scattered leaves of the coast plant, and can scarcely 
be distinguished from it in the dried material. hough slight, the 
characters between the two plants seem to be well marked and persist- 
— €nt.— W. WILLarD AsHE, Forester, Geol. Survey, Raleigh, N. C. 
* Mill 2: 20. 
